Of Decorations and Merriment

It’s that time. I tend to know it before just before the graying skies and snowfall. Old war wounds ache just a little more. Many folk are already setting up their decorations, dashes of color in the winter gloom. I’ll be joining them. The way the stories go, we do this to appease the Winter Wanderer, keep him in his jolly aspect. We avoid the punishment of the second aspect. Is all that true? I don’t rightly know. I do know that to get through a hard winter, we need to make warmth and cheer. Why not drink? Why not dance? Why not set up festive decor?