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December Drops
December 11, 2020
The Christmas It Rained Forever
This time last year we had more than eight inches of snow. It didn’t all stick and it came at different times, falling, accumulating, then melting, then falling, melting, and accumulating again. But it was snow just the same.
This Christmas so far has been snowless.
It was supposed to snow today, tonight, and tomorrow but this day instead began in haze, developed into gloom, then succumbed to a rainy darkness. It rained the whole rest of the day and into the night, a cold, pounding rain that would not relent. It made the streetlights and headlights blurry and the Christmas lights on all the houses stung the eyes more than delighted them as they blurred with the night.
The poor rain has no way of knowing it was not supposed to fall, that it was hoped to be snow.
You can build a snowman out of snow but you cannot craft much from rain. It does not behave or conform. It does not entrance or refresh. Not in December. But it does give the freshly cut Christmas trees an extra bounce of aroma.
The Christmas it rained forever came before most of us were born. It was the Christmas that washed away heaven, earth, space, and time. Do you remember it? It probably happened only in a movie in which St. Nick is a lady on a boat, paddling merrily through the floodwaters looking for green Christmas trees and red ornaments bobbing in the water. She used a candy cane to gather them into her boat and paddled on.
The movie ended with a snowman crying for help, as he melted in the choppy blue waters. St. Nick paddled faster and faster, but could not save him. --TK
Friday, December 11, 2020