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This is indeed a most heart-rending poem. Bravo!
posted by
muser
on December 29, 2006 at 10:27 AM
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Taps. time flies when you are having fun as they all say...
may be, it is just an anti-climax, after much anticipation, it comes and goes just like that.
posted by
marieclaire66
on December 28, 2006 at 12:15 PM
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MarieClaire
This is a wonderful poem. So true. It is a picture of every Christmas that I can remember. Why is it over so quickly?
posted by
TAPS.
on December 28, 2006 at 4:05 AM
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Mneme, I am glad you did, have a peek,
i guess i am naughty, procrastinating as usual.
posted by
marieclaire66
on December 27, 2006 at 4:58 PM
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Marie-Claire
this is so often the way isn't it? Perhaps you could introduce some French customs to make it last longer - I seem to remember there is a special day that one friend told me about but I can't remember it. And I keep everything out until Twelfth Night too - call me old-fashioned (because I am..!).
PS catching up with emails later on - I really do have to study and I am being naughty even peeking in today.
posted by
mneme
on December 27, 2006 at 3:01 PM
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Jazwolf, thanks you are too kind, lucky thing, I can just imagine that big
grin on your face, under that hat... perhaps. As for me, I am sharpening my knives.
posted by
marieclaire66
on December 27, 2006 at 12:11 PM
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Marie-Claire--- Actually, I'm still basking the after-glow. But good poem.
posted by
Jazwolf
on December 27, 2006 at 10:08 AM
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A month of work gone in mere minutes.
It is phenomenal. I have to remind myself to let Jesus out of his Christmas/Easter/Sunday box. In reality that is my perception, but it is important for me to include Christ in my everyday life.
posted by
Budmannomore
on December 27, 2006 at 6:00 AM
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I'll pour my giant jar of little coins into a big envelope, and post it!
posted by
Antonionioni
on December 27, 2006 at 5:44 AM
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Yeah cold hard cash will be fine thanks, i also take visa, mastercard and
paypal, anytime my friend, if you are feeling generous, you know where i am...
posted by
marieclaire66
on December 26, 2006 at 3:44 PM
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Hi MC - well said, a pungent post-Christmas wake up call.
In my case, it's even more appropriate because I got tokens as gifts for many, and for the rest I gave cash - apart from the people I was with on Christmas Day itself - for them I got chocolate. But maybe that's because the gifts are tokens, and so it's appropriate not to assign too much importance to them - except for those closest to you, perhaps, but then again, what I don't want to do is get them something they don't really want, which I probably would go and do! The main goal is to make them happy, and cold hard cash does the job, I find!!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on December 26, 2006 at 1:32 PM
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Marieclaire
It does come and go with a flurry, doesn’t it? And unfortunately many people pack away the sentiments or the good intention that Christmas evoked along with the decorations. It’s sad we can’t or don’t live the entire year with the same spirit of goodwill. Nicely said, Marieclaire.
posted by
Troosha
on December 26, 2006 at 10:34 AM
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Excellent thought.
posted by
afzal50
on December 26, 2006 at 6:52 AM
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Take care.
posted by
_Symphony_
on December 26, 2006 at 6:51 AM
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THE BEST GIFT TO YOU IS YOUR NAME IT IS THE MOST PURE IN THE all the earth since the beginning MARRIE........................najwa
posted by
NAJWA
on December 26, 2006 at 1:45 AM
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