I hope this Christmas as you spend it either with festive dancing or mellow lounging, deep in thought watching a fire or deep in flour, baking up a storm, this album can be a little part of the journey through the Christmas season. Love and giving is in the air. Driving fast and running through stores is a modern reality. But if you find yourself out of breath and stumbling into yet another recital or wading through a shopping list still undone, maybe rest a moment to take a breath. Look around you at all the precious gifts that you already have. Things, yes. But more importantly, people. kids, family, close friends either in location or feeling. Relationships that without them, we would be so poor even if we had millions of dollars. Give generously. Love graciously. Make peace toward wholeness. Because even though this world is hectic, mean sometimes, selfish, or just plain hard, remember that love is waiting just around the corner, always. Because in all of these storms of life, in a nano second, if we look for it, all can be calm. In our hearts and in our bank accounts. In our giving, in our receiving. In the joy or in the pain. In laughter or in tears, our hearts yearn for more, for a deep calm to bring meaning to our crazy lives and crazy world.