By Michele Miller, Times staff writer
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The sun rises on the winter solstice, and so comes time to pull open the blinds and let the day's light in. It's just a couple of days till Christmas, and there on the window sill sit three small wooden kings, left right where they were placed on Advent's first Sunday.
To some, they might seem out of place; far removed from the small wooden Mary and Joseph and the flock of sheep that await a blessed birth in the wooden creche, which sits on a bookshelf across the room. But these hand-carved kings are where they are supposed to be — on a journey that in past years has taken them from one end of the house to the other.
The kings' trek is a part of our family's holiday tradition, one that came about years ...