Awaiting Santa

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

Have you ever stopped awaiting Santa, that proof that

something magical exists and that it knows you? Isn’t

there something that every little boy and girl wants

that only Santa can bring, like being fully witnessed by

another? Feed the holy say the scriptures, somewhere.

Cookies, milk, carrots: maybe they are enough of an

offering to nourish the spirit in a world that insists

we stop believing.

I don’t have a mantel. But, I can make do. 

(c) 2017/Jamie K. Reaser

From "Truth and Beauty" (a work in progress)