Christmas 2010

Trying to get my holiday cards out (calling them "holiday cards" not only avoids denominational issues, it also lets me get them out any time before Presidents' Day), so not paying much attention to current events or this blog.

I commend to your attention a somber, yet hopeful tune, to be listened to if the madness of the season overcomes you: Calexico's "Gift X-change" (from the Aerocalexico compilation).

You say you're leaving
Going back home
Where's your family?
Where do you come from?
Something's missing from your life
Felt it all along
Retrace your steps
Balance and check
Where it all went wrong

Spirit is broken
The path is overrun
You can't move forward
And now nothing gets done
I hope you can find some
Inner peace along the way
Whatever it takes, I pray you'll make it
Home on Christmas Day

In case you don't find what you need
When you finally arrive
And your heart is snowed in
There's no warmth or light
Take this candle with you
And book of matches as well
As you're climbing the walls, no answers at all
Accept the gift you give yourself

I trust you will find some
Inner peace through times that are rough
What will it take to hear you say
The gift you give is love
The gift you live is enough