It’s the most wonderful time of the year…
A storm rages outside my window. It’s dark, and the freezing mix makes it hard to see. Amy sounds tinny, and far away, and not at all the way I remember her in this song. In my memory, she is warm and welcoming, close enough to touch yet larger than life.
Now, though, she is tiny. A tiny woman singing a tiny song through a tin can phone.
I’m alone, and lonely, and the darkness doesn’t help.
It’s the hap-happiest season of all…
The darkness wraps itself around me, but it does nothing to ward off the chill, cannot stop it from settling in my bones, from freezing my marrow. I freeze all the way to my core, and not even my expensive down coat with its heat-reflecting interior can warm me.
I’m alone, and lonely, and the darkness doesn’t help.
It’s the most wonderful time…
I crank the heater up to eleven and then, because I can’t hear her over the road noise and the heater, I turn Amy up, too. Only it’s not Amy singing anymore, it’s Josh, and Bing, and their once-silken voices now sound raspy and grating, so I turn the radio back down. The blast of hot air from my car’s dashboard vents sears my eyes and chaps my skin, but it can’t warm my soul, and the bright Christmas tunes can’t dispel the gloom.
I’m alone, and lonely, and the darkness doesn’t help.
Oh, the most wonderful time…of the year!
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 
I love this weather
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Not me! It’s waaaay too cold here. 🙂
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I feel like we skipped from Summer, to 1 week of Fall, straight to Winter.
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Same here. And it’s not like we eased into it, either – we plunged straight into the deep freeze!
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Bring on the snow; but when I’m not on my motorbike.
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No, thank you. Although I wouldn’t mind it so much if it were just a little bit warmer outside. 😉
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I love your post. A reminder that it really isn’t the most wonderful time of year for everyone for a variety of reasons. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you! You’re too right. I was thinking of this post again last night at church as there was talk of an accident near here where a semi collided with a minivan. The woman driving the van and her two teenage children were killed, and all I could think was her poor husband. Two weeks before Christmas and he’s burying his family. 😥
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