Silent Night. This morning was the school holiday sing-a-long. We also woke up to a foot of snow. I had a major, dramatic, slow-motion wipeout en route to school and arrived snowy and late. But it was lovely. All the Beginners had paper snowflakes on their heads and to my pleasant surprise we sang songs about Kwanzaa, Chanukah, AND Christmas. We closed with Silent Night. I whispered to Grace, as the song started, “This was my Nana’s favorite carol,” and she looked at me with liquid eyes and said, “She’s in Heaven, right?” I love all carols, but Silent Night has particular resonance. It reminds me of Nana, and it also transports me back to the Exeter chapel, by candlelight, on a Thursday night in December, 1990. I was sitting with Eric and it was the holiday evening prayer service. For some reason it is one of the most vivid memories I have of the two years at Exeter.