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A Beautiful Letdown
I recall the feeling even when I was very young. The letdown. Christmas Eve was so very special because it was all candlelight, music, and anticipation. Christmas Eve was magical and pregnant with beauty. Christmas Eve was an unopened gift bursting with promise. Christmas morning arrived, showing off in a flurry of wrapping paper, bows, …[ read more ]
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Breathless in December
I don’t know about you but I’m out of breath. Gasping my way into the holidays and straggling across the finish line of 2010, I find myself in need of oxygen – a pure, unadulterated, unpolluted breath of heaven. Sometimes I feel like the wheelbarrow in the poem my William Carlos Williams “So much depends …[ read more ]
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The First Bah Humbug (A Scary Christmas Story with a Happy Ending)
Some people find the holiday season irritating, aggravating and downright loathsome. In Christmas movies, these individuals always end up embracing the joy of the season, melting at the special touch of a loved one, a meaningful gift or a carol sung by a pure-hearted child but in real life, they usually maintain their Grinch-like posture, …[ read more ]
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Confessions of a Spiritual Hunchback with Lock Jaw
Do your shoulders hurt? Mine do. Partly it’s from carrying bags of books and files back and forth to work and partly it’s from carrying around the tension of my life. It might be that if I only carried my own life tension I wouldn’t ache the way I do but I also tend to …[ read more ]