Winter Holidays are Here ! -Llegaron las Celebraciones de Invierno !

I love how the Holiday Spirit and Lights all over the city have created comfort among the dreary grey cold winter streets of New York. I've found myself drinking hot chocolate more than ever (tried the first mint chocolate flavor for the first time in dunkin donuts last night) and also, eating more, as Holiday parties are starting to abound. 

And I guess there's much more going on than that intensity going around, more than the celebrations, gatherings and both shopping and window shopping (which is also a delight in NY). I think we are facing with many questions winter solstice, speculations about the Maya mystery and predictions from people who started talking about the shift, giving us dates to 12.21.12 or some going to 12.12.12.  

I think that for the typical New Yorker, these just mean numbers but since I was accompanied a few times by people who really believe in predicaments, I questioned if I should be here or not on these dates. After thinking about it for about 2 mintues, I realized: of course, where else would i choose to be? If something on earth was to happen to earth, New York seems like the fasted moving city to create solutions. That's why I love and and that's why I've been living here 18 years of my life. More than half my lifetime.