Are you on holiday overload? Here’s a wrap up of some of my favorite holiday stories. The national yule log blazes no more Who knew we had a National Yule Log? For the last fifty years a gigantic bonfire has lit up the southern end of President’s Park during the Christmas season, but The Washington [...]
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The clock is running out on Christmas. I spent a very pleasant day with my relatives. Before the clock strikes midnight, I offer one more Christmas Carol.
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It looks like we’ll have a Green Christmas this year (which is fine with me). But for everyone craving snow, here’s “Walking in the Air” sung by Peter Auty.
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Just when I think Christians are a lost cause, some of them will make me smile. St. Matthews-in-the-City Church in Auckland, New Zealand, actually wants people to think! Imagine that! The church has a history of producing provocative billboards guaranteed to make stop and take inventory. This year’s offering is called “Mary is in the [...]
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Good King Wenceslas looked out On the feast of Stephen When the snow lay round about Deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night Though the frost was cruel When a poor man came in sight Gath’ring winter fuel. The feast of Stephen: that’s December 26th. Today… The Christmas season is almost [...]
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Sheesh! December is half over and this is my first post for the month! In my defense, I’ve spent almost a week huddled up in a blanket on the couch. December weather sucks! The last three or four years December has been miserable! I’ve also been wrapped up in neighborhood drama. [Sigh!] The little guy [...]
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I got up this morning to watch on TV the 123rd Santa Claus Parade from cold, mostly abandoned downtown Peoria. I know I am getting old because every year the parade seems smaller and shabbier than the parades I remember as a kid. And yet, for the last ten years I’ve craved a Pagan float [...]
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What does a Witch do at Christmas? I can’t speak for all Witches, but this one celebrates. Christmas was a huge affair when I was a kid. My father was a professional Santa Claus at the Great White Store in Downtown Peoria–back when Peoria had a downtown. The whole family, at one time or another [...]
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Merry Meet! Here it comes! Halloween… Samhain … The Celtic New Year…According to Jean Markale, professor of Celtic Studies at the Sorbonne, the Celts, inhabitants of Europe and the British Isles, divided the year into two parts–the light part of the year and the dark part. The markers for their year were November 1st and [...]
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