Kathy Mattea – Mary did you know
An evening pause: This song honoring Jesus I think really speaks of every child born on Earth, and how every parent should see them. As Wordsworth said, they come “trailing clouds of glory.”
Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
When you kissed your little baby then you kissed the face of god.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Good job in putting this up on Christmas eve. Love it. God bless you and yours and may you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Art Garfunkel –
“Mary Was An Only Child”
Angel Clare 1973
https://youtu.be/rVOf–zyVmk
3:26
I’ll slip this in here. Christmas-related, on a pagan-level.
Who remembers these type of Christmas tree lights?
Bubble lights
Thomas Carlisle 2010
https://youtu.be/b9bFVBd_Dnc
4:23
@Wayne… Just a few years before my time…. But pretty funky!
I know I have few friends, and many opponents on this hive of republicans ;-) but this lefty wishes you all a very peaceful Yule, and a happy and hopefully less dramatic new year!
Lee-
They still make the bubble-lights, although an original string & box, can be quite pricey. (they weren’t user-serviceable, when the light-bulb burned out they would get tossed.)
pivoting…..
“Econolite Motion Lamp”
https://youtu.be/ddtz_znsq0I
1:09
….been snowing along the Lake Michigan coast for the past 24 hours, have a good 6 inches on the ground.
“Snow”
White Christmas 1954
https://youtu.be/yMTd1X9c6kg
2:21