Trivial Pursuits

This time last year the missus and I were enjoying exchanging cards and celebrating the sweetness and silliness of it all. And today, the same. I'm grateful for time's mercies.

I think it's Betjeman in a poem about Christmas who nails the importance of the sweet and silly things, oddly enough by putting them alongside the deepest matters of all. This is a good place for them, both true yet ennobling. The smallest and the biggest things have meaning. The rest is important to deal with, but important to keep in proportion. I know because I so often fail to do so. And if it sounds like I'm preaching believe me that this advice is meant for myself.