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Winter Rain

29 Sunday Dec 2013

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A few degrees cooler and we’d have snow, but instead rain drips off the eaves and forlorn geese honk overhead in their endless migration from pond to pond. With candles lit and tree lights sparkling, leftover Christmas carries us through the winter gloom to New Year’s Day.

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All is Calm, All Is Bright

26 Thursday Dec 2013

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Just before midnight on this Christmas Day
I’m reminiscent of my childhood Christmases.
Some years there was a gumdrop tree on the buffet in the dining room, spiced gumdrops like sparkling jewels on the thorny branches cut from the woods, oh so tempting to tiny fingers (the gumdrops, not the thorns).

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At night we lay in bed, listening to the rustle of stockings being filled, the red mesh kind with candy cane striping around the edge. And in the morning, a giant Big Jim candy cane would be tucked in each one, big enough to last for days.

Some years the porch was rimmed with chunky colorful Christmas bulbs, and some years the train set ran around the base of the tree.

After church the deacons would stand at the front doors of the sanctuary, which opened out into blinding white snow, and hand us each an orange (a special treat in those days) and a candy cane as we headed home.

It doesn’t take much to enchant a child. Merry Christmas, everyone!

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Early Morning Bliss

08 Sunday Dec 2013

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Music For A Winter Solstice

01 Sunday Dec 2013

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