Some early thoughts on tomorrow, the real day of thanksgiving...
"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace
and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of
Christmas."
-Calvin Coolidge
"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has
come 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 one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely."
-Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
"I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into
it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me,
I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And
thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me
unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself:
"Why this is Christmas Day!"
-David Grayson
Merry Christmas all,
-rwr
1:12:31 PM