Below are a number of letterheads, quotations we have placed on our Christmas letters over the years.
We have perhaps posted one or more of them before.
We like them and find value in them...and posting or reposting seems to us appropriate.
Our house is decorated for Christmas. Grandgirls have helped make Christmas plum puddings and they are steaming as I write.
Two acquaintances have recently died, within the last two weeks.
One, the son of friends, the other just recently met.
Still, their passing saddens. We were not close, but now they are gone.
And so we think of that reality...and we think on the Season....and we publish the letterheads.
Christmas and the end of the year is a time to remember, to reflect.
Ah Friends, dear friends, as years go on
And heads get gray
Touch hands, touch hands, with those that stay.
Heap on more wood! The wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will.
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still
Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
The quote above declares Christmas Day to be a day of nostalgia, of remembrance, of feasting, and of prayer. 2011 was that kind of year for us, a year of connecting again with friends and traditions of 47 years and a year of gratitude for being able to do so.
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