Week of hope
Could I be an Advent snob? An Advent purist? And Advent idealist? As I looked forward to the first day of Advent, today, I looked at my 3 Advent calendars: one with various, yummy types of tea; one with scratch off days, and one with chocolate behind each window. I scratched off the first day to realize, to my chagrin, that I had been deceived!
Stirrings of Anticipation
At many homes - on the grass and by the curbs - I saw newspapers. Some were delivered that day and some had obviously been there for a long time. I thought of the people who wrote the articles in the papers - their feelings of anticipation as people read what they wrote.