We gathered at this morning’s assembly to say goodbye to 2025 and wish each other a wonderful winter break. As I do each year at this time, I offer the community a poem, some beautifully constructed words that speak to the change and joys and wonder of the season.
I hope that as you head out now for two weeks with your friends and family that you will make the time together for some snowballs, the moon, and the stars.
Have a healthy and happy break, everyone. I’ll see you in 2026!
– Brendan
In the Moonlight
by Eric Finney
We looked out of our bedroom at midnight:
Now how could we go to sleep
When the world out there was as bright as day
And the snow was lying deep?
So we muffled up and out we went —
Nobody heard us go —
And we stood in the magic of moonlight
In a garden wrapped in snow.
Everything changed, enchanted:
Our garden seat a throne,
The bushes softly smothered,
The trees as white as bone.
For awhile we could only look,
Held in a spell, but soon
We were shaping hard, cold snowballs
And throwing them at the moon.
Tomorrow: snowmen and snowfights
And clearing a track for the cars,
Treading it all into slush, but tonight
We snowballed the moon and the stars.
