Sia, JL, I pray and hope your recovery traverses the scree slope upward with progress every day. Less fain, more pun. Written and spoken like an admirer of Marian Lorne.

On a serious note.

Go out of your way to make some progress every day. Even if it is only the littlest thing.

Our unseasonal Tropic of Colorado returned. Every day last week was 65F to 72F. Wild erigeron flowers are still in bloom and Pieridae butterflies are still in flight sustaining themselves with nectar from them. Forecast for Christmas day is 65F.

Erigerons are purplish little daisy like composites. Pierids are those flitty white and yellow butterflies. Both should be long gone from here by now.

I have not shared pictures because I'm still trying to recover lost files, rebuilding this new machine. It goes slow. That's really the only thing about which I have to complain, and it's so miner it sits in bottom of a gold pan.

Our Christmas service is tomorrow. We elected to do this now, so the eve and day may be spent at home with families or serving the less fortunate. I plan to spend the early eve playing at the senior center dinner here, and the day at the Villa senior center in Pueblo doing the same. Favorite carols, selections from Nutcracker and Messiah. There we can visit centenarian Joan living through her 100th Christmas.

The only bad thing about serving the less fortunate now is when the holidays end, the need continues, but too many people forget.

What's in a number? Voyager 1 and 2 are the farthest spacecraft flying out of the solar system at 39,000 miles per hour. If they were aimed at Andromeda galaxy, they would reach it in 4.3 billion years. Almost as long as earth has existed. But they're flying to the Mexter galaxy, and will take 89 billion years to reach it. That's 6.8 times older than the universe itself.

You can see Andromeda galaxy without a telescope or binoculars. Look in the high western sky in evening. Draw an imaginary line from bright stars Pegasus to Cassopeia, through the constellation Andromeda. Halfway on that imaginary line you will see a fuzzy patch or cloud. That's it.

You've all seen pictures of it. A huge, tilted pinwheel of stars. Close your eyes and imagine you're looking at it, like the picture. We can all remember it, and see it that way.

Consider this. In blink of an eye your thought can remember and see it in your mind, where traveling at 669,600,000 miles per hour, light took 2.2 million light years to reach us. Thought is by far the fastest velocity. Where from came our ability to think? Pretty nifty gifty.