The Last Christmas
Someone someday will celebrate the last Christmas. The last Christmas celebrated may happen some time after the last Christmas we’d recognize, even in a mutant form, and how and when it will happen is...
View ArticleAngina Monologue 26
G. tells us his muse is a goober. Mine is a crusty old retired Sith Lord. Who, this morning, appeared to have descended into goobertude. I found him curled up in the easy chair, surrounded by the...
View ArticleOnce Again, as in Olden Days
Each holiday has its own character and its own image. Our American 4th of July is about sun, noise, grilling, healthy flesh. The image of Thanksgiving is a good appetite and the stuffed extended...
View ArticleThe Last Day of Christmas
Every year there is an end to Christmas day and an end to the Christmas season. It is always a bit melancholy. Each of us will have a last Christmas of our life. That will be a bit melancholy...
View ArticleThe Christmas King
Once upon a time there was a kingdom so orderly that its laws and institutions had all sorts of branchings and variations, like a healthy, growing tree. One of those odd little variations was the...
View ArticleChristmas Goodies
“For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Enjoy these goodies. JG...
View ArticleJesus, Lord at his Birth
Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? or naked, and clothed thee? Joseph and Mary would not have asked this question. They knew when they had done this for...
View ArticleTo They of the Last Shopping Days before Christmas
Tomorrow I will have to get the paper bags that I forgot, and maybe one or two other things. It will probably be crowded aisles and uncrowded shelves. The people will be tired. Not jolly, but mostly...
View ArticleChristmas Goodies
Enjoy the season, enjoy the Christ child, enjoy your family. And if you have a moment for some cozy quiet, curl up and enjoy one of these links. “For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne...
View ArticleThe Great Fact of Christmas
We got a Christmas card this year that said something like “celebrating the birth of the great I AM.” It is a juxtaposition that startles if you let it, a little baby being born and the great I AM,...
View ArticleTwelfth Night, the Last Day of Christmas
Santa Claus is fatherly but old. Appropriate. Because Christmas has a family sweetness about it, but it also is fleeting. Much of the images of Christmas are either cozy and domestic–inside, by the...
View ArticlePaintings that Burn
Christmas is over. But indulge me in one last post. Last night I realized that Christmas is like a great painting that the artist labors on. He unveils it, the people flock around and celebrate it,...
View ArticleTop Christmas toys this year
I’m glad to see that minions are high on the list. Promising young future evil overlords need educational toys, too.
View ArticleAmerican Atheists campaign
Bringing cheer to the Christmas season in the Bible Belt. Apparently the little girl is too old for “fairy tales” about God … but not too old to be writing Santa to complain about it. There’s a...
View ArticleBrother and Sister Scrooge.
Not totally. They cancelled Christmas for the kids, and are turning Christmas into a service project. http://www.overthebigmoon.com/why-my-husband-and-i-cancelled-christmas/
View ArticlePeace
Our ward had its Christmas program today in Sacrament Meeting. It’s not all that different from the usual weekly Sacrament Meeting. We partake of the Lord’s Supper. We have music. We have talks. There...
View ArticleAngina Monologue 26
G. tells us his muse is a goober. Mine is a crusty old retired Sith Lord. Who, this morning, appeared to have descended into goobertude. I found him curled up in the easy chair, surrounded by the...
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