You meet the known world, laugh and cheer together, then get warm and share a drink, and talk presents and recipes, before going home to embark upon Christmas dinner.
As Christmas Day traditions go, it's pretty fabulous.
And picking up the Rilke strand of this blog, I am treasuring 'A Year with Rilke' which offers readings for each day. This was the reading for 1 January:
I Choose to Begin
I love all beginnings, despite their anxiousness and their uncertainty, which belong to every commencement. If I have earned a pleasure or a reward, or if I wish that something had not happened; if I doubt the worth of an experience and remain in my past--then I choose to begin at this very second.
Begin what? I begin. I have already thus begun a thousand lives.
RM Rilke
2 comments:
I know I'm a philistine to be focusing on the picture rather than the lovely words from Rilke, but I was just fascinated with what people choose to wear (or not) when taking a public plunge into the icy waters of Baltimore, with Santa hats being by no means bizarre in the context.
Even the safety guys and the dogs wore santa hats!
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