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Merry Christmas!
In: Ancient Wisdom| Books| Visual Art
25 Dec 2007We’re walking in the air
We’re floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly
I’m holding very tight
I’m riding in the midnight blue
I’m finding I can fly so high above with you
Far across the world
The villages go by like dreams
The rivers and the hills
The forests and the streams
Children gaze open mouth
Taken by [...]
The Twelve Days of Christmas
In: Ancient Wisdom| History
24 Dec 2007Ever wanted to know what that meant? According to the Wikipedia:
The Twelve Days of Christmas and the associated evenings of those twelve days (Twelve-tide), are the festive days beginning the evening of Christmas Day (December 25) through the morning of Epiphany (January 6). The associated evenings of the twelve days begin on the evening before [...]
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St. Patrick’s Day
In: Ancient Wisdom
20 Mar 2006Oh, gentle reader. What a tangled web I weave! I don’t really know how that phrase fits with this post but it’s staying in. I gave up hard drinking a long time ago yet seemed to have forgotten that fact this past Friday nite.
Ick.
Remind me next time some soggy excuse for bar hopping comes along, [...]
Holiday Ho Ho Ho
In: Ancient Wisdom| Think
27 Dec 2004OK…so Merry Christmas to all and happy New Year…can we please be done with the holiday frenzy?!! Yikes! I am so maxed out this season that I didn’t take time to pause and reflect on the whole meaning of the 25th. I had so much to do to get ready fo the family being at [...]
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