100 Days of Wonder – #69
I think I’m beginning to feel Christmassy. It’s Friday, we’re heading to see Dad for a few days tomorrow and this evening I took mum to see a recital of Handel’s Messiah. It’s time to embrace the Christmas magic, joy and wonder and maybe some gingerbread!
100 Days of Wonder – #68
It’s about time I introduced Figment. Here he is. He’s usually more purple than that but here he is in his Disney World 50th Anniversary celebration statue look. It will come as no surprise that I like Figment. (If you are now humming the tune from the ride, you are my people). Figment seems appropriate today because this week I have given two very different papers/talks that have left my little grey cells in overdrive. The good sort of overdrive. The sort that sparks the imagination, the sort that makes you optimistic about all of the possible futures and begins to get to work on ways of making them happen. The events have reminded me to dare to dream and that work which takes us closer to our dreams is always worth doing. Sometimes the idea of changing the world seems too big, too impossible. But as I have said before and Walt Disney reminded us ‘It is kind of fun to do the impossible’. And as Figment puts it:
We all have sparks, imaginations
That’s how our minds, create creations
For they can make, our wildest dreams come true
Those magic sparks, in me and you
100 Days of Wonder – #64
Happy First Sunday of Advent. Here’s one Christmas tree for you – it’s the Magic Kingdom Christmas tree to help you get into the mood. I’ve never actually been to Disney World over Christmas but on almost every January trip the Christmas decorations have still been up when we got there.
I like December and Advent Sundays in particular. I have long since stopped running around trying to see loads of people for pre Christmas drinks, food or coffee. Instead I try and consciously slow down. I try and savour the mornings with opening advent calendars and lingering in bed with that extra cuppa. I try to fill the house with music, lights and smells of making mince pies, hot chocolate or spiced hot drinks. And I try and make time for just being, enjoying time together and reflecting on a year coming to an end and adventures yet to come.
Seeing the Christmas tree at Disney when usually we have packed Christmas away at home is always a lovely extension of that with an additional dose of magic, wonder, joy and pixie dust. So I wish you all a lovely, calm December filled with love and laughter.
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