We had such a blast last year putting together a neighborhood fundraiser. It was for a Holiday Home Tour to start funding the redesigning of a pocket park in our community. In a whirlwind period of just over two weeks, we had six volunteer hosts, numerous gift baskets to raffle off, golf cart volunteers to usher VIP ticket holders from house to house, and a well-organized system for selling tickets.

Our landscaping plans are now approved by the Homeowners Association, HOA; so we are holding our second holiday home tour to make phase one of the project a reality. We have ten homes on the tour, more raffle baskets, more golf carts, and more fun ahead!

Yours truly is decorating her house like an elf on a deadline, because I have volunteered to be on the tour.

Since we took a week off to vacation and to be with family for Thanksgiving, I got a head start on holiday decorating prior to leaving.

Note to self: Buy more garland than you think you need before Thanksgiving, because it won’t be in the store afterward.

In addition to the glittery “dust” that adheres to my face, clothes, and all surfaces in the house, there are snowflakes everywhere.

Which got me to thinking while flitting between projects – what is the lesson of the snowflake?

Infinite in variety, yet unchanging in its basic six-sided structure, the snowflake has much to teach us.

Even the most basic stick-shaped snowflake is somehow beautiful, magical, and elicits a swirl of imaginings in our minds.

The more elaborate flakes, often seen under a microscope or in an intricate piece of art, can take our breath away as we stare in awe.

What is the lesson of the snowflake?

I think it would have to be in maintaining balance.

It’s so easy for me to be “whop-sided” – especially this time of year, when we are all often called to special projects that seem to demand extra from us.

I want to decorate; but the car needs maintenance and I need to concentrate on editing.

If the snowflakes can do it, I can do it. We all can.

It may take a timer, but I plan on being particularly careful to spread my attention equally on my life interests.

An elaborate snowflake is built with attention to all six sides.

What are your six basic sides? Maybe something that demands too much time and effort is simply an offshoot of one of the six major points?

Balanced growth and beauty in simplicity.

In health –

Deidre

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