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Why do I love Christmas Music so?

November 30, 2009 in Uncategorized | No comments

What is it about Christmas? I haven’t always had the cheeriest Christmases and I’m sure I will be having a big ole’ lump of coal Christmas this year, but Christmas doesn’t get me down- even if its not perfect. (New Year’s is a different story.)

I just love everything to do with Christmas. I love Christmases with snow, and I love warm desert Christmases.

I love the music, probably because I have a strict  no-listening-to Christmas-music-until-after-Thanksgiving policy. Plus, I just love music and so many talented musicians have used their skills in service of Christmas. or Hanukkah, or Solstice. I’m open to any winter time Celebrations!!

I love the lights, I love the feeling of merriment, and planning for other people’s happiness and delight. I love Christmas parties and getting together with friends. I love cheesy gifts and bad gifts and those rare, thoughtful good gifts. I love surprises that you know are going to come. I love decorating for Christmas.

I think, basically, that I’m pretty much a big fan of peace on earth and goodwill to all. And parties! Yep, that’s it in a nutshell. And music that captures that and reminds me of all of the ambiance surrounding Christmas time is a welcome guest every year.

Here is a cheery song that I post lasted year.
We Wish You a Merry Christmas by John Denver and the Muppets

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Thanksgiving Prayer for Friends

November 26, 2009 in Best Library | No comments

Thanksgiving Prayer

by Rev. Max Coots

Let us give thanks…

For generous friends…with hearts as big as hubbards
and smiles as bright as their blossoms;

For feisty friends as tart as apples;

For continuous friends, who, like scallions and cucumbers, keep reminding us we had them;

For crotchety friends, as sour as rhubarb and as indestructible;

For handsome friends, who are as gorgeous as eggplants and as elegant as a row of corn — and the others — as plain as potatoes, and so good for you.

For funny friends, who are as silly as brussels sprouts and as amusing as Jerusalem artichokes, and serious friends as complex as cauliflowers and as intricate as onions;

For friends as unpretentious as cabbages, as subtle as summer squash, as persistent as parsley, as delightful as dill, as endless as zucchini, and who — like parsnips — can be counted on to see you through the long winter;

For old friends, nodding like sunflowers in the evening-time, and young friends coming on as fast as radishes;

For loving friends, who wind around as like tendrils, and hold us despite our blights, wilts, and witherings;

And finally, for those friends now gone, like gardens past, that have been harvested – but who fed us in their times that we might have life thereafter;

For all these we give thanks.

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On my mind…

February 12, 2009 in True Confessions | No comments

How to be friends with people whose actions violate values that are really important to me? …. hmmm… this has come up every now and then over the years and I have resolved it in different ways. I’d like a deeper wisdom about it.

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