December 27, 2004

I'll be Home for Christmas

I'll be home for Christmas...Potentially near Butler, Ohio until these past few days interesting weather...

I'll Be Home For Christmas

I'll be home for Christmas;
You can count on me.
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents under the tree.

Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love-light gleams.
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams.


I can hear it now... "For Heaven's sake, Hoku, enough already with the Christmas music...We are all done with that for this year!"

Ok Ok Im with you... But for us this holiday season was fraught with such emotion, Im a bit...Well not ready to let go just yet..

This is for certs my last Christmas in Hawaii as a Kama'aina. No two ways about that. I will remember my Island Christmas's past with the fragrance of Plumeria and Ginger, mingled with the smells of Douglas firs coming off ocean containers... and the strangeness of so little pomp and ceremony as a city, here in Hilo... Is it the rain that causes people not to decorate like on the mainland?, or is it, as I noticed as we traveled in Ohio, that if you see a decorated home, that means that the wife is a home based homemaker...as opposed to a working outside of the home, homemaker. There are much fewer of the former here... That was a measure (to me) of the prosperity and traditional values that I felt were present in Central Ohio. The number of homes with cute decorating and well tended flower gardens...

As Woody said, "Here, Christmas sort of sneaks up on you... Little change in the weather, but where we are going...Ah... Next year we will have a white Christmas!"

He has not a clue as to the nature and dynamic of what he longs for...