It’s snowing here in Seattle, and for us this is always a treat…and a headache. We get only one or two snow days a year, so few of us know how to drive in it, and traffic can be a nightmare. But today’s snow is beautiful: heavy flurries, light dustings, then more flurries, white against blue, silent and fluttering white against deep, darkening blue. December is here.

This can be a blue time for many people. The holidays are coming, lights are shining, snow is falling, and the season can sometimes be a sad reminder of lost love, lost friends, or just loss itself.

I hope that even if you have a hard time in December, you can appreciate the cold, harsh beauty of this season. The sun is hard to find, hard to hold onto: before you know it, it’s 4:00 p.m., and twilight is upon us. But the sky is sometimes luminous with the cold, deep blue of December: glittering stars, cold darkness, and silence. I hope that whatever it is that you grieve this year, you can find in these dark days a few bright lights, a few reminders that the coming new year will bring increasing light, increasing warmth, and a way forward.

And if you live in Seattle, don’t forget to play in the snow! It will be gone by Monday!

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