So this is Christmas. 2020 style.
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There are far worse ways of spending it than from behind the wheel of my car.
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I was delighted to return to the Ventura County Fairgrounds in Ventura, California to drive through its "Holidays In Your Car" light display.
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It was surprisingly unique...
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...affording me the opportunity to motor my way through a laser light show for the first time ever.
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And then I wondered why there aren't more lasers that can be driven through? All year long?
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But I guess it's the same reason we don't keep our Christmas lights up all year long.
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We need some darkness to appreciate the light.
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As dark as the world is right now, though...
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...my 2020 holidays won't be dark.
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Not if I can keep driving through the lights.
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Not if I can slow down—or even stop a little—to admire the colors, the seasonal twinkles, the whimsical figures.
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Some might appear to be clear...
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...and some might be just a blur.
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I might not be able to see it all...
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...and sometimes I might lose the path.
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But if I keep following the lights...
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...I'll find my way.
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I hadn't managed to muster up any holiday spirit before this Sunday's trek to Ventura...
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...but there was something about the small-town spirit of driving through a light display at the county fairgrounds that did the trick.
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Now I'm ready to embrace the season—whatever it has to offer—after a year of so much darkness.
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