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| But you can leave the bowl out!
It's a Bowl for All Seasons |
Taking Down the Tree
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| Looks like Aidan is diving in!
He's actually getting a closer look with his special glasses! |
Rosemary for Remembrance
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| For all Feasts & Seasons |
Tossing out the Dried Basil
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| As my friend Ed said,
"I think you leave the rushes on the floor until Rogation Day." Haha! |
As for putting things away, I knew that Candlemas / Groundhog Day would be too soon; so I changed my goal to Superbowl Sunday. After all, if the football season can last until mid-February, so can the Christmas Tree Season! The big day came and went, yet the tree remained! Then the snow came! I told Gerry that as long as we keep getting snow, I'm keeping the Christmas tree up another week. He said, "the tree staying up is causing the snow!" Could it be? Some kind of reverse weather magic!
Then came Mardi Gras -- upcoming frivolity but also impending reality. Although I am convinced that even the angels love it when we leave our trees up, I knew it was time. At last, on Ash Wednesday, with Gerry's help and and emotional support, I took down the tree and put away every Christmas decoration. As in previous years -- giving up Christmas was my Lenten sacrifice. Over and done with.
Duo
Nadia
and something fun to read /watch: Bad Monkey
As the action draws to a close, the main character Andrew Yancy / Vince Vaughn has a reckoning with death during which he hears the voices of all his friends and colleagues who have urged him, within the complicted course of the novel, to "let it go!" Although it goes against his tenacious nature, he quickly comes to accept that "letting go" is what he must do in order to save his own life -- a very serious take-away from an otherwise lighthearted story.
It is now Lent -- time to let go of something. You decide what.
