Most years, I decorate a huge Christmas tree with hundreds of ornaments and sparkles, but this year our tree is so different .... it is a small jade tree in a pot, decorated in soft colours . The little tree is from a second generation cutting from my grandmother's jade tree, brought from Hong Kong, or so the family story claims. The baubles are frosted glass with our grandchildren's names on them, made by my daughter-in-law. I added a few little dolls also in pastels and I hung some felted balls . These little balls were made in Nepal, a couple of years ago at Seven Women , a centre which empowers marginalised Nepalese women through education and employment. There is a single wooden star resting on the top branch of the tree. Somehow all this seemed appropriate with the unsettled and disturbing situation of the fast spreading Omicron variant of Covid -19 here in Newcastle ( NSW) - thes...
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