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My Grandma’s Cuckoo Clock now in my living room.
Drawn on the iPad.<\/p><\/div>\n

Hello all we are deep in the holiday flow now.\u00a0 Thanksgiving was late and Hanukah was early, Solstice and Christmas are where they always are but seem to be speeding along faster than normal.\u00a0 And like every year there are, holiday parties, staff gatherings, family celebrations, cookie exchanges, winter concerts, and tree decorating, and dance recitals. If you are like me this somehow takes me by surprise each year.\u00a0 My extended family decided some years ago to simplify Christmas gift giving and I am once again grateful for that decision, but still leading into the holidays there is a constant ticking, a countdown that can lead to a crazy frenetic feeling. I want to share a story about the clock pictured above that perfectly illustrates my conflicting feelings of the season.\u00a0 This cuckoo clock was originally owned by me grandma (she was dubbed cuckoo grandma by my son because of the clock<\/em> but it stuck as a family sobriquet because she was<\/b> a little cuckoo<\/em>\u2026 anyhow) this grandma loved clocks of all kinds.\u00a0 She had a booming grandfather clock that rang out the quarter – half and hour chimes, two grandmother clocks, one in each bedroom, that also chimed 4 times an hour, and several mantle clocks, one that indeed rested on the mantle but the rest adorned her piano and TV, and of course there was this cuckoo clock in the dining room clambering for attention on the hour and half hour.\u00a0 For many years my grandma kept these clocks in precise time and so on every quarter hour you were graced with a quartette of chimes, then on the hour and half hour a full symphony of chimes and chirps.\u00a0 But as my grandma got older and more deaf and less able to manage the clocks the inevitable happened – they got out of sync, and would, bong and chime and ding and chirp for most of the hour and then the whole thing would start up again.\u00a0 And there was something so maddening and something so delightful about the whole experience that it brings to mind the holiday season.\u00a0 So much going on so many people to see, to gift, to gather, to embrace and to toast – such a flurry \u2013 it\u2019s like the clocks sounding in my grandma\u2019s house both exasperating and exhilarating, infuriating and invigorating. I choose to embrace it all and delight in the overlapping tones, chimes and chirps, and if I call out the occasional CUCKOO \u2022 CUCKOO I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll understand and might just join me in the chorus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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