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| Allan Gardens Christmas 2019 |
On the shortest day, in the dead of winter before there was Christmas, people loaded what food they had on the table, lit all the torches, came together and defied the long night with celebration.
It worked: the darkness receded, the days warmed, spring came.
Whipping darkness with joy is humanity’s best trick, even better than turning paper into money, words into song, plant sap and cow’s milk into ice cream.
The genius of joy is the trick up your sleeve this dead of winter, the real magic of the holiday.
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For everyone on my Christmas card list, the passage above should ring familiar.
For everyone seeing it for the first time, it's my heartfelt wish for you on the shortest day of the longest year in living memory.
Have a safe and happy holiday!
Thanks for reading!
Karen
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| Christmas 1967 |
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