{"id":557,"date":"2022-12-01T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T06:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/?p=557"},"modified":"2022-12-01T22:13:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T06:13:06","slug":"december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/01\/december-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

December is upon us and the shortest days of the year are here. Three weeks until we turn the corner at the solstice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took some pictures of the first day of the year’s last month on my walk today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunshine on the hill beyond the neighbor’s machine shop. We are in the shadow of the opposite hill and don’t get sunshine at this time of year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Snow-covered trees along our driveway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s really been a hell of a year. I’ve had a lot of health issues in the back half of the year, of the “multiple ER visits” variety, leading up to abdominal surgery (a hysterectomy) in mid-November that will, I hope, fix the problem and also a number of other problems that have been dogging me at a lower level for years, dragging down my energy and causing me to lose multiple days a month to illness. I’m about two weeks out from surgery now, recovering at a reasonable pace and keeping myself fit with light walking. Like today’s walk up to the highway and back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It snowed last night, so everything is fresh and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Driveway trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I do, in general, genuinely enjoy December despite the cold and the short days. I love the Christmas season, I love lights and gifts and Advent calendars (am I even slightly religious? no. Do I have one this year? OBVIOUSLY) and all the books\/movies\/TV episodes that are seasonal this month only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The tree was up early in November due to post-surgery restrictions on lifting things. I regret nothing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This year I got emotionally invested in W.E. Johns’s Biggles books – yes, the boys’ own adventure books from the 1930s-50s – and so there are tiny airplanes on my tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So yeah – a lot of this is just finding the pleasures where I can, but there are<\/em> a lot of them. Not the least being my wonderful husband, who is rarely mentioned here, but has been doing a lot of heavy lifting (sometimes literally!) through all of this. It has very much been A Year, but we’ll be starting the new one in a month, and I’m looking forward to getting back to the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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