Sunshine On The Water Looks So Lovely.

The weather in Houston has been unseasonably cold and grey, for winter. We've had about three weeks of grey skies, rain and temperatures in the forties and fifties. According to meterologists the average high in December in these parts is 74 degrees fahrenheit. But today the sun is out, although it is still a bit chilly, and I had the opportunity to see sunshine reflected off the bayou. It really is lovely. While I was happy to see the grey skies and feel the chill, wearing a sweater is quite pleasant, it doesn't take long before sunshine is welcome again.

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I think I post more often when things aren't going so well, thus the gap between posts. We now own a lovely new house, and are extravagantly buying furniture for it, mostly a new bedroom set. It is very nice to see my darling wife be excited by something, it was touch and go last week, but we went for a long bicycle ride and that helped us both. December is the difficult month for her at work, just a case of survival. Just a little stretch until we're sitting by the pool with a cocktail in the warm sunshine.

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The very first post on this blog was about language, about how so much of what people say doesn't make sense. In Houston at the moment you can find many vehicles with a bumper sticker saying, "Keep Christ in Christmas." I find this both amusing and alarming. Amusing because how would you take Christ out of Christmas? If there isn't Christ it's just a festival of lights, giving and celebration, just like there was when the fesival was appropriate by Christians. By definition, Christmas has Christ in it. Alarmed because what they really mean is keeping the omnipresence of their beliefs intact. So that every store, every house on every street, all the music that you hear, on every radio station, on signs on the street, literally everywhere is a reinforcement of Christianity. It is by its very nature, intolerant. The funny thing is that I have never been anywhere that could compare for the amount of Christmas stuff as here.