As I got home from work last night, I happened to notice that many of the surrounding apartments still had their Christmas lights lit. Around the complex, balconies shone and flashed with various colors and types of lights.   Something about those lights in the darkness gave me a warm feeling. Maybe the occupants in those units weren’t ready for the holidays to be over. Maybe they were silently protesting the end to the Christmas season. Or maybe they were still observing it. Or perhaps they just enjoyed the bright lights and didn’t want to take them down. Whatever their reasons were for keeping up their lights, I was glad.   As I…