Dear Reader:

The most enjoyable part of putting ornaments on the Christmas tree is remembering the person who gave you the ornament and the occasion. This desk came from a student, who returned after he graduated from high school, to let me know how much he enjoyed the class and to let me know that he could still remember his desk and where he sat as he listened to stories of the past.

He decided on this ornament because he wanted me to remember him as the boy who sat in a desk, while traveling to different countries along different time-lines of history…a student who was planning on majoring in history in college.

The desk hangs from a prominent place on the Christmas tree each year.

Earlier this week…my friend, Barbara Barfield, added the following message to her Facebook page. I loved it…it made me stop, pause, and smile. Let me share it with you, in case you missed it

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Since this is Sunday, December 13….I will have already gone to see the Rockettes at Radio City Hall Saturday night (and seen how big the place really is, Sis) and  I will be getting excited about our bus tour of the Christmas lights in NYC this evening. I have a feeling my eyes are going to be wider and rounder when I get home tomorrow!

So until tomorrow….with miracles all around us…we need not look for explanation but meaning.(Quinn Caldwell) “Don’t look for data; look for symbol. Don’t look for facts; look for truth.”

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the Pooh

*Ann Graves sent me this picture of one of her hanging baskets containing a geranium making a winter come-back since it feels like spring….must be very confusing for the plants….they were already tucked in, sleeping peacefully when mother nature woke them back up…have to blame it on the winds I reckon.