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Tag Archives: Holiday
For Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my jo, for auld lang syne, … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings
Tagged Auld Lang Syne, Christmas Holiday, Farkle, Holiday, new year, New Years Eve, old friends, remembering old friends, Robert Burns, Scotland, Scots
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Just Do It! On New Year’s Resolutions
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a…person…made … Continue reading
Kindness – The Gift of Grace from Strangers, the Love of Family
“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it comes round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by … Continue reading
The Binding Tie – On Family and Family Holidays
“Bless be the tie that binds, Our hearts in…eternal…love, …Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, Our comforts and our cares. We share each other’s woes, Our mutual burdens bear, And often for each other flows, The sympathizing tear.” … Continue reading
Posted in Writings by Wordsmiths and Others
Tagged Children and Youth, Christmas, Family, Family history, Family ties, Holiday, Home, Making memories, painful holidays, resilient families, Retie the family tie, Rugallah, Schnapps, Stollen, Struggles at holiday times., Thanksgiving, The tie that binds
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Giving Thanks for the Little Things
“Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Robert Brault Thanksgiving makes me introspective about all my blessings. I will never be rich. I will never be president. My name … Continue reading
Southern Snow – On Finding Home
William Sharp, a Scottish poet, once wrote, “There is nothing in the world more beautiful than a forest clothed to its very hollows with snow.” While I was born in Ohio, I spent most of my growing up years and … Continue reading
Posted in Writings by Wordsmiths and Others
Tagged Christmas, cotton, Doug, finding home, Holiday, New York, New York City, North Carolina, October, Outer Banks, snow, Southern snow, the beach, Upstate New York
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