Traditions must be maintained! An Etching by Rembrandt A Literary extract from Charles Dickens Music by Bob Dylan and Judy Garland . Rembrandt may be the most searching anatomist of the human hea...
More Paintings for contemplation and inspiration! El Greco (1541 – 1614 ) – ‘The Adoration of the Shepherds’ ‘The Adoration of the Shepherds’ is a work of blazing, visionary brillia...
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Watch out. Better not cry Make sure not to pout. You don’t need me to tell you why. Listen to those tinkling sleigh bells. Can’t you hear the rattle of those Reindeer hooves? Oh, we all know ...
Home. Home. Home. A drumbeat from the heart urging you back Home for Christmas. For Aaron Neville Home is in Louisiana and he hymns it royally. Wherever the Home that calls to your heart is I hop...
It wasn’t the Kings, with their glittering gifts, who were the first witnesses. * No. * It was the Shepherds. * Outcasts of the time. * Who yet had eyes to see and revere a Miracle before them....
Sooner or later we all go astray. Everyone of us needs to be saved. And, no one alive can survive without tidings of comfort and joy. Comfort and Joy. Too easy to default to dismay. Hark! Hark! H...
Every one of us, poor as we may be, can bring a gift. The gift of ourselves and the gifts we been given. Our Hearts Our Voices. Our Drums. Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum A new … Contin...
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Christmas opens the door to Hope. Even in the bleakest of bleak Midwinters. Though the earth be hard as Iron and Water stands like Stone there is yet, as Snow falls on Snow, Hope in a humble birt...
The Christmas Dinner has been cleared away. Shoes kicked off. Cigar lit. A very generous measure of hot buttered Rum poured. Now, you need a smoother than smooth sound to maintain the mood. Nothi...
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There’s no denying that when times are hard (and someone near you right now is having those hard times) Christmas can be a season of worry rather than wonder. Sometimes you pray that somehow yo...