It always has to be something profound. The trees had all been broken. A week or so ago it rained ice and the branches couldn’t bare the weight of it all. When we were landing you could see the miles of snapped wood. (I’m wondering now if that’s what could’ve happened to land of dead trees that I drove by in my youth.) When I lived here years ago, I spent much of my time among trees. (I had always wanted to place a desk in the middle of the field of the trees all broken with an old fashioned typewriter and a bottle of scotch to do a photo shoot.) I say that I had communication with trees in an Ich-Du fashion. When I told them that I see Christ in everything, they considered me a pagan. ‘Tis the season. (I had speculated years ago that the cemetery of trees may had been caused by a fire decades back and just stood untouched all this time.) So the trees had all been broken and there is literally debris everywhere. I had discussed with a few people how with a tornado there is a clear cut path of destruction. With this, it was everywhere. There is a definite shift in the energy here. A change in history. It wasn’t that many years ago in this state that the topsoil blew away. People forget. I climbed on the broken branches as the snow fell. There was a thin layer of ice forming on them and I was slipping as I crawled over. I found little infestations of mistletoe and collected a handful. When I had looked out the window there were several cardinals jumping about on the downed tree. I went back inside and kissed everyone in the room. I participate in ritualistic magic. Today is a holy day and there are as many interpretations of its meaning as there are minds to conceive them. The true message is the acceptance of and communion with mankind. Each person you meet is Santa Claus. Every one of you is Baby Jesus. We’re all the Grinch, too. Enjoy your day off, if you’re not working. May it go by quickly if you are. I will be looking down on a cemetery of trees as I take to the sky in my sleigh… headed towards my home by the ocean…