Category Archives: Christmas

Choirs of Angels

Posted on December 23, 2008 by K

            It has been hard for me this year. Hard to feel the loving spirit. You know how sometimes you are surprised by joy? I’ve been more like wrapped in acoustical tile, somehow. At church, I … Continue reading →

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Good fellows

Posted on December 23, 2008 by K

December 22, 2008             I LOVE my neighborhood.  Love it, love it, love it!!!             I got myself stuck in a snowbank tonight.  It’s been snowing all day.  Even so, we each have sallied out to pick up a final … Continue reading →

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The Ancient Shindig

Posted on December 22, 2008 by K

I have told this story before.  And I’m sure, by the time I have run out of words, I will have told the same stories so many times, my children will be able to build a simulacrum out of the … Continue reading →

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All wrapped up in shiny paper

Posted on December 19, 2008 by K

Getting ready for the Christmas party.  Like I haven’t been doing that since the week before Thanksgiving.  I have to give myself time, because this is the one good setting-in-order the house will get for a year.  I figure, if … Continue reading →

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And know me better, man—

Posted on December 18, 2008 by K

The header above is honest to gosh real holly from a real holly tree, compliments of Gin and Rhode Island. Today’s morning surprise.  More snow.  And this isn’t the end, they say –  Yikes.  The air is full of stuff. … Continue reading →

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Atten: Office of Humbug

Posted on December 17, 2008 by K

   Forget cognitive dissonance.  How about cognitive lock-up.  Like they say on the space shows, “I’m trying sir, but the computer’s all locked up.”  Or frozen?  Do they say frozen?  Or jammed.  Any of those.  That’s where I am: cognitive freeze.  What’s wrong with people in administrative offices?  If … Continue reading →

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Fairy Lights

Posted on November 30, 2008 by K

Not a lot of words, here. On Saturday and Monday I put up the little outside lights. G does the big ones up on the scary roof, and I make him do that early in the month before the roof … Continue reading →

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Traditions—gotta love ’em

Posted on December 14, 2007 by K

Some shots of the new studio room: (and the lovely musical son):     More Christmas  While in our house the Great Thanksgiving Feast is about food, ritual, family and tradition (is that the same as ritual?), the Great Christmas … Continue reading →

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Our Christmas Card: letter and pictures, including sentiment.

Posted on December 10, 2007 by K

A Merry, Merry Christmas from our yard to yours— This post brought to you by the Fabulous Web Tools written by Murphy Randle and given to his mother for Christmas. WHAT A GUY!! (And how will I live without him?) … Continue reading →

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