Contemplating Other Realms at the Tag End of Another Year
Update: 2019-12-06
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This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills. Once again, as we come into the shadow of the Long Dark, the giant clock that marks our time on this planet is winding down with an almost audible ticking. We feel it in our bones, the tap, the beat, the sound of days ratcheting away. Surely that’s one cause for our frenetic dashing about this month, grabbing the tree, the turkey, one more present for the pile, chestnuts for the fire, satsumas for the stockings. We joke about the diets to come, the resolutions, the regrets as we cherish the remnants of the feast, embers of the Yule log as well as the tag ends of a year used up and gone. So many things to remember. So much to embrace, so much to mourn. And so little time before the next round is upon us. So what do we do with the tag end of a year? For me, more often than not, it’s a time to sit down with notebook in hand to gather up the scraps of memories, important events or precious moments that pass by too quickly, trying to catch them
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