How did we get to Christmas?

To paraphase Yogi, it gets late real early this time of year.

Bums a lot of people out, that.

But lights, now, lights shining in the darkness.
Pretty. Hopeful. Warming.
Colored lights.
Lights dangling improbably from the eaves.
Lights wrapped round and round into the shape of a deer.
Lights in windows, haloed.
Lights inside oversized, inflatable Magi.
And their camels.
Lights strung on trees - real, artificial, or abstract.
Candles.
Logs.
Flambeed puddings.

It's all about the lights.

i don't get it, did you make a type error or something?

But "It is as it is." Edward III

Nick17--

The world is never what it once was.

Still: You can and you can't step into the same river twice. It's a poor man who has only one window.

Part of the nature of the universe are chasms between the real and the ideal; the human and the divine; the event and the memory of the event.

Hey, my furry friend. Yes, it's all about the lights and the glow, ya know?

Hey, neo. Punctuation needed, right?

That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is not that it? It is.

Good to see some familiar faces here.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

But the new and improved Nostalgia is better than ever.

Nostalgia literally means homesickness, Noddy, and we all know that we can't go home again.

(Actually, it's a New Latin translation of the German Heimweh)

What's heimweh mean, Walter? Does it rhyme with Steinway?

If so, I can play home sweet home for ya.

Heimweh is homesick :wink:

nostalgia
1770, "severe homesickness" (considered as a disease), Mod.L. (cf. Fr. nostalgie, 1802), coined 1668 by Johannes Hofer as a rendering of Ger. heimweh, from Gk. nostos "homecoming" + algos "pain, grief, distress." Transferred sense (the main modern one) of "wistful yearning for the past" first recorded 1920. Introduction and abbreviations

Language is funny, ain't it, Walter. And a wink back at ya. Thanks, buddy. Love the history of words.

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