âAnd so this is Christmas,â sang John Lennon. This Christmas season was different for everyone. Events we have come to expect, those traditions we count on to make Christmas Christmas were not a part of Christmas 2020. With all our downtown events canceled, churches, restaurants and other venues closed or limited, we were left to make the best of a bad situation. And so this was Christmas 2020.
I decided to celebrate Christmas in New Mexico with my sister. My brother-in-law Rex Gray passed away unexpectedly of a heart attack in August. Spending the holiday with my closest remaining relative was the right thing to do. We talk on the phone every morning, but it had been over a year since we had seen each other. I was unable to make Rexâs memorial service in October and felt bad about that.