Sharing a post from our Governor, Jared Polis:

To me, “Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party” by Norman Rockwell captures this year’s very different Christmas. The party below is inaccessible, almost ethereal, the figures evocative of the wispy ghostlike memory of the joyous parties of years past and the anticipation of future fêtes. While some partiers are having a grand time, others look like they would rather be elsewhere. But to that little girl, the festivities look otherworldly: wondrous yet inaccessible. Rockwell’s staircase represents the barrier of time, allowing remembrance of holidays past and the promise of holidays future. The girl can only imagine the conversations and the gaiety so close at-hand yet so far out of reach. I typically attend a dozen holiday parties each year, but this year none. Holiday parties tend to blur one into the next, just as the revelers in Rockwell’s painting. This year, we have our memories to lean on, and sparkling visions of a post-pandemic future to inspire us.

(daily ex. update, tm am 1.5 miles, ytd 1519.7 miles.  Walk 4 miles, ytd walk 727.9 miles)