Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnell have a picture book called "I Am In Charge Of Celebrations". "like the day I saw the coyote" the narrator says. Among other things, we are told that it's important to celebrate the first day of spring - not the one on the calendar, but the one on which you wake up and the gray has been peeled off the world like a sticky film and all the fresh colors and smells are revealed.

I hereby give you permission to be in charge of celebrations. You may declare Christmas, Valentine's Day, or Halloween when you feel in your honest place that they are appropriate. Even Yule. Sometimes the rebirth of the sun is more than just an astronomical phenomenon.