2015-12-25

dragonyphoenix: Blackadder looking at scraps of paper, saying "It could use a beta" (snoopy xmas)
2015-12-25 11:03 am
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If you really love Christmas ...

Leslie and I have a holiday tradition of watching Love Actually.


Arlington: Christmas Day, 2013: Captain America’s holiday message, "Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. And to those who observe some other tradition, I wish you peace and joy and light.” makes him a traitor in the war against Christmas (at least according to some). I like it because it both honors diversity and mentions the new Wiccan grave markers at Arlington cemetery.

When I posted “The Christians and the Pagans”, Mary Jane commented that it’s her favorite holiday tune. This is mine.


My favorite Christmas carol for these lines “Fall on your knees. Oh hear the angel voices.” So overwhelmed that your legs can’t hold you up; what a glorious image.


dragonyphoenix: Blackadder looking at scraps of paper, saying "It could use a beta" (Default)
2015-12-25 11:05 am

If you really love Christmas ...

Leslie and I have a holiday tradition of watching Love Actually.


Arlington, Christmas Day, 2013: Captain America’s holiday message, "Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. And to those who observe some other tradition, I wish you peace and joy and light.” makes him a traitor in the war against Christmas (at least according to some). I like it because it both honors diversity and mentions the new Wiccan grave markers at Arlington cemetery.

When I posted “The Christians and the Pagans”, Mary Jane commented that it’s her favorite holiday tune. This is mine.


My favorite Christmas carol for these lines “Fall on your knees. Oh hear the angel voices.” So overwhelmed that your legs can’t hold you up; what a glorious image.



dragonyphoenix: Blackadder looking at scraps of paper, saying "It could use a beta" (The 13 Clocks xmas)
2015-12-25 12:47 pm
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better now

On Christmas Eve, I wrestled with hurt and anger, and I won! Wrestled, however, is too active a term. I’d lit candles. I’d set George Winston’ s December playing. And as I was siting in the relative darkness, my hurt and anger, poof!, just up and went.

Wayne Muller’s book on the Sabbath describes it not as a specific day of the week but as “a time consecrated with our attention, our mindfulness, honoring those quiet forces of grace or spirit that sustain and heal us.” While I have long admired this book, this is the first time I have felt the healing power of Sabbath-time.