Well, poor auntie has been told she will not be released from rehab this week, and therefore will be spending Christmas there.
She lost too much blood during the surgery, her iron levels remain too low, and, they just don’t feel she’d be safe.
Glad there are people looking out for the hobbit.
And it means we’re going to have an interesting Christmas.
It being a Sunday, I will be conducting worship at the First Unitarian here in Providence that morning. However, as there will have been two, count ’em, two services the evening before complete with pull out the stops high end musical programming, I’m not expecting many people early in the day on Christmas day. So, Fred, our music director and I have agreed not even to produce a printed order of service, but rather he’ll arrive with a bunch of music in his hip pocket & I prepared to gas on for some period of time, depending. And depending on how many show up for the service, work up our program on the spot.
So, for Christmas Day, on the way in to church Jan & I will quickly visit auntie. Then that brief and I strongly suspect very intimate gathering at the church. And then after that we’ll go back to the Rehab and spend the day.
Hearing of this friends took mercy on us and offered for Jan & me to come over to their place for dinner. But we declined. After our visiting, we doubt we’re up for more visiting, even with old friends, and so we’ll want to end the day fairly quickly.
We’ll find something to eat on the way back. My Jewish friends have long extolled the virtues of Christmas Chinese cooking. And, maybe. But maybe something else.
We’ll be in serious don’t know mind.
It’ll be an adventure…
And, whatever, all this sets me to thinking about Christmas for us, Jan & me, as nontheist, liberal Buddhists with a strong Christian cultural wash in our hearts.
Maybe this is cool…
Somehow a little time, or a longer time, with a loved one healing has a bit of a feel like that this will prove to be a good Christmas…
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