{"id":6474,"date":"2023-12-27T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2023-12-29T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T17:43:43","slug":"a-tucson-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/?p=6474","title":{"rendered":"A Tucson Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We opted to stay home for Christmas this year versus the whirlwind tour of east coast friends and family that we typically do. This decision was quite a big deal, as we\u2019ve been traveling east for the holidays for the last 19 (nineteen!!) years, with only 3 exception years. There are pros and cons to all that holiday traveling and also pros and cons to staying home. Fact is, neither option is perfect, which is fine. And traditions morph over time, which is also fine. As a good friend of our\u2019s recently put it, trying to keep everything the same year after year is not only impracticable, but downright impossible given that the entropy of the universe is always increasing. With chaos and disorder growing with each passing day, how can one possibly expect anything in life to remain the same? Traditions included? Upon hearing this I immediately drew a correlation in my mind of the chaos and disorder that Paul and I thought we were in when Silas and Ivan were little babies, and how I sometimes long for what now appears to be those simpler<\/span> times. Today\u2019s chaos and disorder is SO much greater than in those days! Bottom line, there is just no holding the universe back people. And so, we had an absolutely lovely Tucson Christmas this year, complete with plenty of entropy but with the spirit of all our friends and family traditions still firmly intact.<\/p>\n\n\n

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