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I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

by angela on December 25, 2008

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Merry Christmas, and Peace on Earth!
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Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
~Francis C. Farley

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I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable 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, and to think of people below them [...]

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With Christmas just a week away, I found Gourmet Magazine’s Holiday Cookie Collection 1941-2008.
Honestly, most of them look both scrumptious and beautiful. I also love these “Old Fashioned” Christmas Butter Cookies from 1947 cut in the shape of little Christmas trees. What’s really nice is that they include a bit about [...]

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David Bowie & Bing Crosby Sing Christmas

by angela on December 17, 2008

If this doesn’t get me in the Christmas spirit, I don’t know what will. I love the “peace on earth, goodwill to men” motif.

From a washingtonpost.com article on the song, “Bing and Bowie: An Odd Story of Holiday Harmony”:
The result was an epic, and epically bizarre, recording in which David Bowie, the androgynous [...]

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