This is the first Christmas in a few years that i have been well enough to really enjoy all the wonderful fuss and bother of it all. I have not just one tree, but 3!! One in my bedroom, one in the living room an done outside the door. Mischi has bows and bells on and is making a musical noise whenever she walks by. My Germanic and Danish heritage is fully represented in my home and that of my family.
Christmas eve we have a Danish Christmas dinner: roast goose with prune and apple stuffing, caramel potatoes, red cabbage and green vegetables...a nice colourful feast. The dessert is a fluffy rice pudding. In the pudding is an almond, whoever gets the almond wins a mazipan pig.
After dinner we have coffee and cookies and stronger stuff for the hearty ones to fortify themselves for midnight church services. Christmas during my childhood was always a bitter-sweet affair. My Mother would become homesick for Europe and weep a bit over the Christmas box that family always sent. We all still get weepy. Now that i am a member of St. Luke The Physician it will be my turn to say Grace.
I wish all of you the joy and peace of this season and may God grant you all yur wishes.
Christmas wreath
the fourth candle now lit
a hush pervades
Christmas tree
hanging memories
one by one
Lights on the tree
making wishes
this dark night
Still christmas night
the sound of rain
no snow at all
Snow covered temple
lone woman in a red coat
kneels to pray anyway
Grandmother
a blue haze covers
the old eyes
memories come
creeping in
1 comment:
Hi! Your beautiful collaborative card came yesterday and I felt compelled to search for both you and the artist on the Internet to thank you. I found your blog but nothing on your artist friend. I'm wondering if she's listed in a different way. I would love to see more. At any rate, I love the images and haiku I see here and am glad you feel up to celebrating this year. I have times when I can do so and other times when I can't, healthwise.
Happy New Year!
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Pris
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