This post was mounted on my blog almost two years ago. This seems like a good time to bring it back for another appearance. Happy Holidays during this wonderful time of celebration!!! For me, Christmas rarely arrives on December…
Yearly Archives: 2014
CHRISTMAS
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Christmas, Colorado, gift, jeweled lights, jolly fat men, Mexico, shepherd's garb. Colima, Silent Night, sleigh bells, winter, wise man
ON THE SUBJECT OF CHRISTMAS TREES
Recently I was very disappointed in the decision makers of Redding Pennsylvania. Today I am more than proud. I’m encouraged. For those of you who missed the newscast, a fairly ugly Christmas tree had received enough criticism that the city…
PRIORITIES
John Donne, a British poet born in 1572, wrote a poem, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, that finished with the words Ernest Hemingway used in the title of one of his best known books. Donne’s poem says, “And therefore, never…
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FORT MCPHERSON thoughts:
There’s a book with the names of the dead in it on a counter in the small information building. The white gravestones stretch in all directions. Fort McPherson, outside of Maxwell, Nebraska, and easily reached from Highway I-80 caught me…