TBM-2501.01 – Prayer for the Morning
Today marks the advent of the new year – 2025. Much of the world is on edge as we wait for what might happen, and hope for the best.

Today marks the advent of the new year – 2025. Much of the world is on edge as we wait for what might happen, and hope for the best.
Mermaids know all about tides, but Christmastide is confusing.
The tree stood in the living room, centered in the arch of the window, its branches unadorned – naked.
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A handful of pearls. That was all Nerissa had. Oh, she’d grown up in Poseidon’s Grotto, with abalone combs and aquamarine and moonstone gems, but when she’d left the great ocean to marry a land-walker, she’d forfeit her jewels and pirate’s treasure hoards and kept only the handful of her nameday pearls.
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And yet, these winter holidays all have something in common as well – aside from the tendency to celebrate with incredibly delicious, albeit unhealthy foods. They all bring light to the longest nights of the year.
Oh, you better not splash, you better not wail. Better keep flippin' that shimmering tail. Sandy Klaws is comin' to town.
And on solstice mornings, with landwalker-entrancing song and candy darters, they would send me out to play and I would glide through the swaying kelp searching for news of the Seven Seas, and always find a barnacle-crusted whale by the deep trench or perhaps a clownfish with its colors dimmed by the colder water.
In the deep blue ocean, far beneath the tide, Cold and shadowed waters, secrets there abide.