Home for the Holidays?

No, I'm not coming home for the holidays, but I think I came to a close second this evening as Google Earth took me via satellite all the way back home.  This discovery caught the intrigue of all the foreign teachers at my school as we all tried with eagerness  to locate our respective homes.  It was alarming, perhaps even a bit jolting to realize that with a few clicks of the mouse I was transported back home to San Francisco, looking with bird's eye precision at my house.  I think I even saw my car parked out there.  Too bad for the teacher from Montana whose closest view was only of the surrounding forestry and mountains.  Go big city.

Okay so maybe this satellite feature has been around awhile, and I'm just out of it.  Well I am (out of it), but it did bring me a sense of wonder just thinking home was within such an easy reach.  *Sigh*

I have little to complain about, though.  Life is good, despite the fact that it is a fight for joy.  Yet in the fight is revealed a most wonderful portrait of the Gift we celebrate this Christmas season.  Worth fighting for?  Yes, indeed.

 p.s. Operation Turn-My-Students-into-LOTR-Fans ACCOMPLISHED .