The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
You’ve heard it called “the most wonderful time of the year,” and you may be reveling in holiday cheer (or drowning in it). Maybe you’re waiting patiently––or impatiently––for it to pass. Regardless of the holiday season, winter in Utah really is the most wonderful time.
Years ago, my friends were raising five children and on snowy Sunday mornings, they and their kids would bundle up over their Sunday best and cross-country ski to their local church three quarters of a mile from their house. They’d line up their skis outside the church entrance and as they untied their ski boots, they were handed their shoes. They unbundled from their hats, scarves, and coats and they would head into Sunday services with rosy cheeks.
My friends celebrated the best of living in Utah, and in Utah fashion, taught their family to do the same. We hope you’re taking advantage of the best Utah offers this winter: skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, hot cocoa, ice climbing, fat biking, or snowshoeing in the mountains. Or enjoying the amazing red rocks and deserts of southern Utah. However you enjoy what our remarkable state has to offer, we hope you’re choosing to celebrate it this month.
On the Bee last week:
Challenging the strength of the predicted blue wave
Criticizing the practice of 19th-century child marriages is not presentism if people at the time were also troubled.
Marrying too young and being troubled by that practice.
Challenging change and group-identities.