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Rod at home by Chuck Hasse
11/1/08. Copyright 2008 by Stanyan Music Group
A Thought for Today
Love is another word for Christmas.
TO BEGIN WITH
I couldn’t say it better today than I did many years ago in the lyrics
of a song called As We Traveled Through Vermont . . .
Merry, Merry Christmas
and may
God Bless YOU
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Thursday 25 December
CHRISTMAS DAY
John Ashley o
Clara Barton o
Humphrey Bogart o
Susan H. Butcher o
Jimmy Buffett o
Cab Calloway o
Carlos Castaneda o
Quentin Crisp o
Ron Foos o
Sir Lew Grade o
Rickey Henderson o
Conrad Hilton o
Kitty Kallen o
Annie Lennox o
Celia Lipton o
Little Richard o
Jillie Mack o
Barbara Mandrell o
Tony Martin o
Irish McCalla o
Sir Isaac Newton o
Don Pullen o
Robert Ripley o
Pete Rugolo o
Anwar Sadat o
Gary Sandy o
Hanna Schygulla o
Rod Serling o
Sissy Spacek o
Gladys Swarthout o
Helen Twelvetrees o
John Walsh
Friday
26 December
KWANZA BEGINS
BOXING DAY (AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NZ, UK)
ST. STEPHENS DAY (IRELAND)
Steve Allen o
Charles Babbage o
Helen Brann o
George Dewey o
Lucy Faithfull o
Carlton Fisk o
Amy Grant o
Thomas Gray o
Joyce Jillson o
Alan King o
Jared Leto o
Doris Lilly o
Wibo van de Linde o
Ismail Merchant o
Henry Miller o
Donald Moffat o
Ozzie Smith o
Phil Spector o
Mao Tse-tung o
Lars Ulrich o
Maurice Utrillo o
Tahnee Welch o
Rebecca West o
Richard Widmark o
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Christmas is as much a time for summing up as it is a time for
celebration.
If we kept Christmas every day apologies
would be unnecessary.
I wish you Christmas every time you close
your eyes.
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Bless the
children first,
for they need help
just to get them safely
down the block.
With all the mazes
that we make for them
(like teaching them to hate
before they learn to spell)
It is a wonder that they ever find
the door that opens out to adolescence.
Bless the animals
that sniff the kitchen floor
and those that prowl the hills
Animals, like angels, need protection,
because we use them only
as a substitute for love -
the kind that other people promise us
while they steal our evenings
and before they sneak away.
- from "An Outstretched Hand," 1980 |
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