Archive for Month: December, 2011
Picture the Holidays – Days Twenty-Eight, Nine, Thirty, & Thirty-One
Through the Looking Glass
A Toast
There’s No Looking Back
Gather Your Thoughts
When then is lost, as time is by,
we look upon the yearly wine
to see our substance in the lees.
Did tribe and purse most pleasing leave?
To look for clear and faithful sense,
that gives a bodied stance bouquet,
then see the vat at mirror’s face
and find in it, the yearly pace.
—E. Marshall, Vintner Epilogue (Happy Old Year)
Picture the Holidays – Days Twenty-Six, Seven
The Day After - A Breath of Fresh Air
“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.” —Andy Rooney
Picture the Holidays – Days Twenty-Two, Three, Four, Five
You are Getting Sleepy
Life Is Sweet
Enchantment
This Magic Moment
“Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself…”
—Norman Wesley Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas,” 1976
Picture the Holidays – Days Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty-One
Warm Glow
Recharge & Make a List (and, check it twice)
Wrapp(ing) with Love
Attitude Adjustment
“Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given–when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.” —Joan Winmill Brown
Picture the Holidays – Day Sixteen
The Season of Lights
“Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.”–Charles Dickens
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