It is almost Christmas and I am only now getting around to my obligatory Advent entry. It seems as if Advent captures so much of my life. It is that time of hope and expectation, when we “are reverently, passionately waiting // For the miraculous birth” (W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts). It often seems like I am waiting for something miraculous to come along as well, especially now as I try to figure out what I do after the Lamont campaign.

Well, as Vladimir responds in Waiting for Godot to Estragon’s question, “What do we do now?”, “We could do our exercises.”

So, I continue to blog. I continue to try and help others get going with their blogging. I keep reading NewsTrust, as I wait.

For those who don’t know Auden’s great poem, I would encourage you to go out and read it. After the section I quoted comes the twist: “there always must be // Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating // On a pond at the edge of the wood”

No, I’m not going skating today. However, I will go hear one of my daughters sing in a Christmas concert. I will go see a movie tonight. (Yes, it is about blogging). I will eat cookie and play games, and all of that will be part of my exercises as I await the miraculous birth.