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Christmas Crafts for Kids - An excellent article about Christmas crafts you can do with your children.
With the holiday season soon upon us, it's time to think about some fun crafts you can do with your children in preparation of Christmas. My kids love doing holiday crafts, and I'm sure yours will too! It has always been challenging...
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Have Yourself an Awful Little Christmas
Words are very powerful. In fact, vocabulary has a remarkably
high correlation with IQ scores. We use words to communicate our
thoughts and feelings. Internally, we use words to think. For
both reasons - thinking and communicating - having a...
Kayaking Gifts For Christmas
Finding good Christmas gifts ideas is easy if you think about a persons hobbies. If you are buying for person who enjoys kayaking, here are a few ideas for kayaking gifts.
Kayaking Gifts
Kayaking is a sport that appears to require relatively...
The History of the Christmas Card
The Christmas card, as we know it, originated in England in the year 1843. An artist named John Calcott Horsley was commissioned by Sir Henry Cole, a wealthy and successful London businessman, to create a card that could be sent out to his friends...
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Alone At Christmas
Amid the frenzy of Christmas preparations, from shopping to decorating to baking to wrapping gifts and other activities that’s part of the season’s spirit, there are many that are oblivious to Christmas.
They may have been part of the crowd at one time, but that was a long time ago. Today, Christmas day is just another day.
Times change. So do circumstances. Some families grow together, but the time comes when the next generation has to move on. Distance, mobility and health can hinder the cohesiveness of family and friends. Add to this animosity and differences.
Families become strangers to one another, especially when discord or separation happens. Christmas heightens the feelings of desolation.
Grief becomes a dark veil of loneliness at this time. There is one less hug for a lovely gift, one less smile on a face, an empty chair on the table.
In every city, in every community, there are those who have long forgotten the joy of sharing Christmas dinner with family or friends. The Christmas songs have been silenced in their hearts. There are no presents to give, none to receive.
A lonely lamp sits sadly at the corner where a Christmas tree once
The Authors Who Made My 'Day To Day'
As a correspondent for <em>Day to Day</em>, Karen Grigsby Bates often reported on books and their writers. She offers an essay musing on her time with the show, including some of her best moments with brilliant authors. Karen Grigsby Bates
stood glittering brightly with colored lights, adorned with tinsels and trinkets with wrapped presents under and around it. The sound of silence pervades the air on Christmas Eve. The room awakens to the winter chill of Christmas morning.
Some make an effort to relive the past cheers of the season. The reality is, there is no substitute for the warmth of laughter and cheers on Christmas day shared with loved ones.
Despite an effort to bring on some cheer,there’s that feeling of emptiness. Watching the frenzy of the season on television brings a tear or two.
There are those who are alone at Christmas. For you, I send light and love this Christmas Day.
About the Author: Bonnie Moss writes about spirituality and other inspirational topics. Visit her website , a metaphysical site that offers information on tarot, crystals, aura, angels, charms and spells and related topics. http://goldencupcafe.tripod.com
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