Merry Christmas from all of us including Sable

View 803 Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Merry Christmas

We’re going out for Christmas dinner. Roberta sang at Midnight Mass last night, and we’ve had a good day, with SKYPE to the grandchildren in Washington DC, and a visit from Alex, our oldest, who will come to dinner with us.

And we have Sable. After her cancer diagnosis a year ago in November I was certain that last year was her last Christmas. That was not so. She remains a happy dog, and we just returned from our walk. She even put up with being combed, since it is spring outside and she is shedding. The mocking birds have decided that it is spring and are building nests, so they will be glad of the wolf fur.   It has been a good day.

O ye, beneath life’s crushing load,

whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
with painful steps and slow,

Look now! For glad and golden hours
come swiftly on the wing:
O rest beside the weary road,
and hear the angels sing!

Yet with the woes of sin and strife,
the world has suffered long
Beneath the heavenly strain have rolled
two thousand years of wrong;

And man, at war with man, hears not
the tidings that they bring;
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
and hear the angels sing!

And to all a good night.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.