Christmas twigs

I seem not to have many words at the moment. I think this might be because I have spent a lot of time with people over the last week - in the classroom; visiting friends who are expecting or who have small children; listening to a Quaker friend talk about her life for a profile I am writing. It feels as if there has been a huge amount of talking. So it was was lovely to quietly arrange some gold and black twigs in a vase and hang paper snowflakes on them.