I relish Christmas holidays, always have, even when the past year gets spotted with disappointment and sadness.

I ran across the work of Laurie Anderson at the Hirschhorn Museum her in DC recently. Her ‘Story about the Story’ was written in bright white words on a massive black wall. It’s starkness and simplicity made me stop and read.

The thousands of boxes in front of me were visceral and inescapable, causing both sides of my brain, the logical and the emotional, into an alignment of comprehension.