. . . and a Happy New Year!

I don't much mind Garrison Keillor's rant on the UU propensity to change things (holy or not). I'll let it mostly pass but would like to share a quote with Garrison from Earl W. Count, 4,000 Years of Christmas:

Shall we liken Christmas to the web in a loom? There are many weavers, who work into the pattern the experience of their lives. When one generation goes, another comes to take up the weft where it has been dropped. The pattern changes as the mind changes, yet never begins quite anew. At first, we are not sure that we discern the pattern, but at last we see that, unknown to the weavers themselves, something has taken shape before our eyes, and that they have made something very beautiful, something which compels our understanding.