Slip sliding away

Whoa--where did the year go?  Blink and all of a sudden, it is two weeks before the end of the year and we have only posted about a dozen times.  It's not to say stuff hasn't been going on in life.  Rather, it's been going on so quickly, it's hard to take the time to post something about it.  That and I probably updated my status and added a photo, so most have a pulse on what's on my mind already without appending a blog post.

But here I am, at what seems to be the final sprint to the last day of the year.  I have a love / hate relationship with this time of year.  It's wonderful to see family, celebrate with friends and take in the delight of the children when they open their presents and still believe in Santa Claus.  But what I don't care about is the commercialism, the over-scheduling, the depersonalization of list making and errand running, expectations of being somewhere one doesn't want to be, losing sleep, scraping windshields, the dark mornings and dark evenings.

Like so many of us, we forget to slow down, listen and just observe.  Take in the sounds and scents of the season.  Stop and take in each other's presence, not worry about the presents.

Just be.  For it's all just slip, sliding away.