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.

Letty wrote:



But with the right sales pitch, the right spin....

Christmas with timber, noddy and the gang. Talk about nostalgia.

yeah

Yule or Yule-tide is a winter festival that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic/Scandinavian peoples as a pagan religious festival, though it was later absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas. The festival was originally celebrated from late December to middle of January (14th)
It was also practical to celebrate at that time of the year as the harvest was in, the slaughtering over and the fish - at least in the Nordic countries - was dried and salted.
If the harvest had been bad - no celebrations - if it had been good celebrations.
If you lived up north in Scandinacian where the sun does not rise and you had no calender how could you know exactly when it was sunstice?

The Swedish Asatru Assembly (Sveriges asatrosamfund) is a Neopagan organization, founded in 1994, practicing old Norse paganism and Norse mythology. The group describes itself as a "democratic, non-racist, non-profit organisation. There are about 300 members.
" The Asatru Assembly arranges several blót rites, to honour the Norse gods. The first one was held year 2000 in Old Uppsala - the first one since 900 years.

The lovely Mrs. timber and I still exchange holiday cards. This year she told me she found an old audio tape with Kevin's voice. It made her smile.

I'm glad she's at a point where that's a good feeling, a good thing, for her.

I had just gotten to know timber well enough to fully appreciate him, when he passed. I missed so much.

I miss the old bird

He had a way about him