Spotlight Art – Mother and Child with Harlequin – Painting of the Day by Paul Rossi

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The darkness breaks
And Dawn awakes,
Her cheeks suffused with youthful blushes.
The rocks and stones
In holy tones
Are singing sweeter than the thrushes.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (Christmas Carol)

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Painting Attribution © Paul Rossi, Mother and Child with Harlequin, 2016

Source Attribution https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Mother-and-Child-with-Harlequin/697155/3234854/view

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Poetry – Senryū – Christmas Music Plays – A Poem by Goff James

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Merry Christmas Everyone

Many thanks to all of you
who have visited, followed, read my blog, encouraged and supported me this year.

In which ever way you celebrate the festive-tide;
may your days be filled with love, peace, joy and happiness.

Stay Dreaming. Stay Blogging.
Stay Safe. Stay Smiling.

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Poem Attribution – Goff James – Christmas Music Plays

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Music Box – Carol of the Bells – A Song for Christmas – The Tabernacle Choir – Temple Square

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Music Attribution © The Tabernacle Choir, Carol of the Bells, Music by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914 and the lyrics by Peter J. Wilhousky.

Video Attribution The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square

Source Attribution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-W2Bkz_Rno

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Open Box – Christmas Quotation of the Day by Marjorie Holmes

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Ghost-grey the fall of night,
Ice-bound the lane,
Lone in the dying light
Flits he again;
Lurking where shadows steal,
Perched in his coat of blood,
Man’s homestead at his heel,
Death-still the wood.

Walter de la Mare (A Robin)

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Open Box – Christmas Quotation of the Day by Washington Irving

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Now winter nights enlarge
The number of their hours;
And clouds their storms discharge
Upon the airy towers.
Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o’erflow with wine,
Let well-turned words amaze
With harmony divine.

Thomas Campion (Now Winter Nights Enlarge)

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Open Box – Christmas Quotation of the Day by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown,
Of all the trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown.
The rising of the sun
And the running of the deer,
The playing of the merry organ,
Sweet singing in the choir.

The Holly and the Ivy – Traditional

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Spotlight – Season’s Greetings 2022 – A Message from Goff James

Seasons Greetings 2022

The Frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s cry
Came loud—and hark, again! loud as before.
The inmates of my cottage, all at rest,
Have left me to that solitude, which suits
Abstruser musings: save that at my side
My cradled infant slumbers peacefully.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Frost at Midnight)

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Open Box – Christmas Quotation of the Day by W. T. Ellis

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Bring in a tree, a young Norwegian spruce,
Bring hyacinths that rooted in the cold,
Bring winter jasmine as its buds unfold:
Bring the Christmas life into this house.

Wendy Cope (The Christmas Life)

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Open Box – Christmas Quotation of the Day by Nick Hornby

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In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

Christina Rossetti (A Christmas Carol)

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Poetry – Tanka – In My Arms You Lie – A poem by Goff James

Poem Attribution – Goff James – In My Arms You Lie

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