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December 25 11:59 PM: oh, my neighbors are just louder than usual because they’re celebrating Christmas with their friends and family. Good for them, tis the season, lets all be jolly! I hope they’ve had a good day.
December 26 12:01 AM: lets put an emphasis on “silent night”...either shut your mouth, go inside or get lost, I’ve got work in the morning.
2016 has provided plenty of opportunities to in despair cry out over the state of our world. But I'm grateful for the peace of Christmas and the songs, especially this one, that gently remind us to lift your head up, to keep on going, and to do it with the best smile you can muster. So, because this is one of my favorites, and because we didn't sing it today...Merry Christmas from the Longfellow and his bells 🔔
Here’s hoping we all live to see us find a better way.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Stay safe this holiday season.
Merry Christmas Loves. May all be calm, bright and right to you this day and forever more.
the sky lightened suddenly to a dazzling, opaline white and the muddy grounds were revealed one morning covered in glittering frost. inside the castle, there was a buzz of Christmas in the air.
Today a large portion of tumblr celebrates Christmas. I'm one of them. But the joy and festivities of this day is coupled with a silent shadow, as the chasms of history open up. There, in the clear midnight, comes the strains of Silent Night, sung in both German and English, echoing from the past.
I think what I love most about the Christmas Truce is that for one day, the guns fell silent. For one day a pocket of people were able to look past their enemies uniforms and see them as who they were: a bunch of kids and a few older men who were far from their families on a special day. They were able to share gifts. Sing a hymn. Share a smoke. Solve the war over a football match. For one day, humanity shined. Yes, the peace would end at sunup that morning, but nothing could stop the fact that it happened.
And because it happened I am left to believe that there is always some good in this world. We all have our Christmas truces, whether they happen on the 25th of December or any other day on the calendar. It's just our wish that they'll last longer than a day, longer that a week, longer than a month--till maybe, just maybe, our truce becomes our peace.
It’s that time of the year again, to remind all you trench buddies that you’re awesome and I wouldn’t trade ya for the world.
Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel and Frohe Weinachten.
Harry Potter + Christmas
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
somewhere in the chasms of history, John Adam is pitching a fit over my avatar.
Fa-la-la-la Johnny. Fa-la-la-la-la.
I know I’ve gone overboard with my Christmas Posts, but I cannot pass up a post like this— the Christmas Truce in song!
Take note: 2014 starts the centennial anniversary. If you thought my Gettysburg tribute this summer was too much consider this: ye have been warned…
