The Chattering Crow: Christmas Day

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas Day

It's better on Sunday. It's better to pray and give thanks and sing as if angels have your back. It's better to believe in that God/baby in Bethlehem than sneer through life in rational rightness.

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ThelmaDecember 26, 2011 at 8:17 AM
I loved Christmas on Sunday! It helped to have 11:30 church.
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CSIowaDecember 26, 2011 at 10:14 AM
It IS better on Sunday. I was over my cold enough finally to be able to sing. Our lovely meeting clocked in at under an hour. Merry Christmas!
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Angie LarkinDecember 27, 2011 at 9:32 PM
It IS better on Sunday. My dad grew up Catholic and converted to Mormonism. It was always a special treat as a kid to stay up until midnight and watch mass with him. It felt right...even though I'm Mormon.

This year we attended sacrament meeting in the oldest functioning LDS chapel in the world. It was surrounded by snow and as I sat in the ancient pine pews, I felt like Laura Ingalls Wilder on the coziest Christmas ever.
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seven smilesDecember 29, 2011 at 1:48 PM
love.
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"Grandma, your hands are old." Sally Plummer, age 3.
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"I am universally offensive." Dede Plummer, 2014
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"Please bless Grandma. And Grandpa. That they can have a nice time. In their apartment." Louis Plummer, age 4.
“Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.” George Saunders
"Hello, my name is Tom, and I'll be your spouse this evening." Tom Plummer, 2012
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"In my end is my beginning." T.S. Eliot
"Nothing has prepared her for the wide, grey simplicity of sadness and for the knowledge that this is what the rest of her life will be like." Carol Shields
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"When I die I'm leaving my body to science fiction." Steven Wright
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"I grew up in the wide and spacious building." Charles Plummer, 2011
"Pride is a such a useless handicap." Christina Putney
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"Don't retire; retread your tires." Lucy Jarvis
"Grandma is never boring." Mira Plummer, age 8
"Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien
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