December 24...Christmas Eve

yarn wreath by Katie Runnels of the Constant Gatherer

photo from flickr

"May your memories of Christmas come on gentle wings to bring you peace..."

this lovely yarn wreath with it's vintage feeling brings back warm and happy memories for me.  one Christmas as a primary student, we wrapped yarn around small cardboard wreath frames.  we then cut pictures from old Christmas cards which were glued to the back, so that the wreath formed a picture frame. this was my Christmas gift to my mom and dad when I was eight years old and i still remember how proud i was of my creation. 

one of my favourite Christmas story's is A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas.  His prose, descriptive language and the childlike run on sentences evoke the magic of a child's Christmas in another time and another place.  at the end of a wholly satisfying Christmas day filled with gifts, delicious food, visiting aunts and uncles, singing, playing outdoors with his friends and wonder of wonders...snow, he says...

... Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steady falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept.

my wish for today is that we can all sleep in the peace of "the close and holy darkness" at the end of a day of wonder.

Comments

[stephanie]

Merry Christmas and Peace of the season to you Kate, Bob and family!