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Photo by
Edward Habib McKuen. ©2006 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives
A Thought for Today
Keep the smiles coming, even as the year runs out.
FROM the¨BOOKS
Christmas Now
There's tinsel in the town already
and wreaths so fragile
that I doubt they'll last
through Christmas Eve.
There was a time
when I was bothered by
commercial Christmas
starting in on All Saints Eve.
But now I welcome each reminder,
however early or ill-timed,
of that sweet saviors birth.
For if we ever needed Christ's
and quiet Christmas men,
there is no time when
they should be more welcome
than just now.
Each reminder -
carols of an evening,
trees trucked early into town,
merchandise in mad array
in downtown windows,
even plastic garlands
strung across every city street -
should only serve to prod us
into friendship and the fantasy
of goodness
set down clearly by the mystery
we chose to name as God.
Man can always use reminders,
be they old or new names
served as recipes for love.
-from Women's Day, 1968
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