Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
Last year was Ricochet's first Christmas, and I posted this excerpt. This year, I'm doing it again. And that's how Christmas traditions get started. To many more...
Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea—on, on— until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it. And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.
Merry Christmas.
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Jul '10
Re: Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
I still chuckle at Yer reference of Frosty the Snowman being the "Pepsi" version of Christmas characters. Still hilarious. Tradition indeed.
Edited on December 25, 2011 at 3:50amSep '10
Re: Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
You, too. 2012 is gonna shock the world.
May '10
Re: Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
Rob, Peter and James... the things I've done to you over the last year... you took every one like a trooper...
Thank you for letting me play in your sandbox for another year!
Merry Christmas!
Jan '11
Re: Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
Well said, but would, could Dickens the reformer have written that today?
Jun '10
Re: Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
At Occupy Bethlehem, heavenly angels have arrived with signs saying, "We are the 67%" They're threatening to spread joy.
Re: Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
EJ, for a belated Christmas I'm going to give you a full set of headshots with various facial expressions, just to make your marvelous work a little easier.
Just finished reenacting the Christmas Carol with my daughter and her stuffed animals. The dog entered during the opening scene, and picked up Bob Crachit in his mouth, then let him go. He left the room, nails clicking on the floor, laid down at the top of the stairs and gave one of those sighs that makes you wonder if dogs got that from us, or we got it from them.
He rejoined the play during the Ghost of Christmas Future sequence, walked around the room, then left and made his way down the stairs with great care, as his hind legs are stiff and his eyes are bad.
He's a few weeks away from his 17th birthday, after all.
He got a meatball after supper and an hour-long walk to the creek and back. Big Milk Bone in the stocking tomorrow. I know the odds, I do. I still think he'll be with us when the tree goes up again.
Sep '10
Re: Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
Merry Christmas to James, his wife, the Gnat, and Jasper the Wonder Dog. And of course to Rob, whose work I first read about somewhere in the Bleat; and Peter, Claire, Diane and all the other Ricocheters. May God bless you all in the coming year.
Aug '10
Re: Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
And a Merry Christmas to everyone at Ricochet. I'm in the midst of reading A Christmas Carol again; it's my fourth year doing so. A great story.
May the Peace and Joy of the season find its way into each of our hearts.
Edited on December 25, 2011 at 5:51amNov '10
Re: Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
"for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself."
Jan '11
Re: Merry Christmas, Ricochet. 2011
Well, of course he will, as will others you have loved, just not quite as tangible.