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Ready for Christmas, ANY Time…
It was a dark and stormy night… (I’ve always wanted to start a story that way! ) Actually, it really was. One thundery, rainy … Continue reading
A Little (Merry?) Christmas Mischief
My heart is pounding so loudly in my ears, it feels like “the little drummer-boy” is about to give me away. Mom’s holed up in her room – Christmas headquarters this time of year – wrapping some gifts. No one … Continue reading
Words of Christmas I Love
I remember an old movie I saw once…a twist on the Cinderella story with an eccentric grey-haired fairy godmother who every once in awhile popped out mid-conversation with a new word she just loved. “I love the word windowsill,” she’d … Continue reading
Light*posts – Part Two
As always, Christmas cards from seemingly unending numbers of friends lined our living room walls the season I was 16. And as always, I marveled at the masses of them. This year they were swirling in, even more abundantly, like … Continue reading
Light*posts – Part One
Some Christmases glow even brighter in memory – blessed by all those “first time” moments of awe: – The first time you catch a snowflake on your tongue – The first time a tree seems to rise up out of … Continue reading
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GREEN Was My Christmas
My childhood memories of a green Christmas: – Snow-effects, a la Hollywood: When you don’t have snow naturally, PAINT some! For you from warmer climates, do you remember storefronts with snowflakes painted on their windowpanes, made to resemble the way … Continue reading
MAJESTY – Part Two
Fast forward several years from my last post. Christmastime at college…my first year living away from home. Somehow it just doesn’t feel like Christmas… I’m a bit lonely, melancholy… In between classes, in a rare moment of nowhere particular to … Continue reading
MAJESTY – Part One
Nicholas’s attention was drawn to a group of people…standing in a circle in the area just in front of the altar…They lifted their heads and began to sing a motet by Palestrina. They sang a cappela and the voices seemed … Continue reading
Today, the Christmas Word is…Magical
The sun is shining, the grass is green, The orange and palm trees sway. There’s never been such a day in Beverly Hills, L.A. But it’s December the twenty-fourth, And I am longing to be up North… – Irving Berlin, … Continue reading
