The Feast
I was watching Ms. Scrooge and heard this story told by a preacher. It is a retelling of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. My favorite retelling of this story is Bill Murray's Scrooge.
It's A Wonderful Life
I thought of this a long time ago. In a way Mr. Potter never really comes to face any bad consequences for stealing the 8,000 dollars from forgetful Uncle Billy.
Christmas Wish List
There are so many more, and endless list that could be made better if Bernie Sanders could have been our next president.
Mum..
For all the things that you do for me, For being my rock and crutch, For always caring and believing, For loving me so much, Through all the mistakes and ups and downs, You've always been by my side, For showing me how to live and love,
Canada
Today is Canada Day.
Casey at the Bat Lawrence Thayer
I like to read this out loud to my friends
dylan
don't criticize what you can't understand
The Shining
Finishing up the movie The Shining and thinking of all the talk about the massacre that happened Sunday night in Las Vegas. I love how the family acts totally innocent, they did have some influence in how he turned out.
Halloween Traditions
I have a lot of fun celebrating Halloween.
Where to Go
Just got done watching Planes Trains and Automobiles with John Candy and Steve Martin
Thanksgiving
I am looking forward to the time off and just enjoying some good food and a good parade as I do every year.
Due Thanksgiving
“Due Thanksgiving” is a poem I wrote a couple of weeks before the American holiday of Thanksgiving. Our “Harvest Festival”, if you like. And it’s celebrated on the last Thursday in November, each year. And, a couple of weeks before the actual holiday, I got into a reflective mood, thinking about that first Thanksgiving, (Which has devolved into a very commercialized excuse for a “family feast/get together”, now.) and what it was about. And I ended up writing the poem, “Due Thanksgiving”. It’s my take on what “Thanksgiving” is really SUPPOSED to be about. Although it rarely is, today. And there certainly is a religious aspect and context to the holiday, as well as the poem. It started as a Celebration of God’s bounty to his people. And the particular people who started this great “Thanksgiving” were, in fact, “Christians”. A small offshoot branch of “Christianity”, but Christians, nonetheless. And, for such a long poem, something that you may find interesting, is that, from start to finish, this poem only took me between 2 and 3 hours to write. It was almost like there was a hand guiding mine. But the poem isn’t meant to proselytize Christianity. Most people that know me, will tell you that I’m NOT a “religious” person. And, if you’re speaking in terms of “organized” religions, and/or churches, that’s true enough. But I DO have a “spiritual” side. But I think that a man’s “spiritual” nature is his own business! Between him, and HIS “God”. (Just as I don’t feel MY relationship with MY “Higher Power” is anybody’s business, but mine and His! And you might be interested to know that this poem was originally written in a 4 beat meter (as are the majority of my poems, for some reason I’ve never discovered/understood). But, after people bugging me to “do something” with this poem (which is one of the few poems of mine that I’ve shared, openly, with people who I thought might appreciate it) for somewhere around 30+ years, now, I’ve finally broken down and had a poster made up, with this poem. And, to do that, I tried to break it down into a more natural “spoken” rhythm, which is the version you just read. But there are actually several versions of this poem. (I have a propensity for RE-writing my poems. I NEVER consider one of my poems “finished”. They’re ALWAYS open to rewriting, if I think of a way to say something that “I” feel is “better” than my initial phrasing.) Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.
$3.50 Black Friday Paper
I have never bought anything on Black Friday. I just buy a newspaper to see why over 45 million people go nuts over this stuff.
~ Christmas Holiday Time ~
Happy Holidays
Life is Festival
Life is a festival, celebrate and drink Spirit and Nature, dance in sync Melancholy of laughter, make you pink Keep gazing beauty, do not blink Pairs of organ, want to think If one fails, you not on brink Light some candles, lamps and incense
I Saw Santa Eating Children
Krampus is Christmas figure from German folklore that comes to whip bad children and eat really bad children. He takes the really bad ones and puts them in the basket he wears on his back.
Christmas blues
The house is filled with Christmas cheer The lights on the tree twinkle like a star The candy bowls are full Yet my heart feels so bare I’m just not in the Christmas spirt this year I hung the stockings with great care The kids are grown
Lost In Translation
Sometimes we become so intent on getting our children that special present, or stressing over financial burdens directly caused by our expenditures during this season that we lose sight of what we're actually celebrating.
Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you have as much peace as I am going to have for the next ten days, outside of visiting my crazy family!