From darkness to light, this is a cycle we experience daily. It is one we take in stride. The larger cycle, the one determined by the sun's journey around the earth, created more fear in the hearts of our forbears. Would the light return? What could they do to ensure the return of light? So began some rituals my family have elected to continue.
I came to CA to celebrate the holidays beginning on December 21 with the welcoming of the return of the sun. This brilliant blue sky, wherein darkness and brightness dwell, signaled what I had come for and the juxtapositioning of the palm tree was proof "you are not in New York any more."
Several days later, that truth was experienced in still another way. Having worn a heavy NY kind of coat to California and to the Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles, I wanted to check it. "I'm sorry, we don't have coat checks," I was told. Welcome to a warmer clime!
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