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Rated: E · Book · Personal · #2172808
We live much of life amid unique choices. Joy is anchored in The One beyond our life.
"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement.
One fails forward toward success."

C. S. Lewis


"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:
not only because I see it,
but because by it I see everything else."

C. S. Lewis




I have come home at last!
This is my real country!
I belong here.
This is the land
I have been looking for all my life,
though I never knew it till now...
Come further up, come further in!

― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1059917-the-last-battle


“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.”


J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien




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December 5, 2022 at 9:07pm
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Buying Christmas from the shelves,
the smallish trees, and metal snow,
what crafty goodness from the elves!
Its whiteness stays when heat doth grow.

How many shoppers fill the aisles
to buy their Christmas gifts and crafts!
Of yarns, and beads, and painting tiles,
the artist makes, until he laughs.

More strings of lights to banish dark,
more gummies decorate the glass,
of "Merry Christmas" wood signs park
to make each home shine Joy and class.

As Christmas things within this store
now wain to make room for the spring,
I joy o'er what is still before,
I shop, and look, and fairly sing.

I'd like to visit one up north.
A store of Christmas all year through.
To Bronner's Wonderland, go forth
to Frankenmuth in Mich., so true.

Until that day, I'll shop right here
with Hobby Lobby's wondrous months.
It's Jan., Feb, March, April, May, so clear.
The rest is Christmas filled with funth. *Wink*

How do I last throughout the spring
when Christmas is no more around?
I purchase yarns and make them sing,
knit red and green as Christmas is found.


by Jay O’Toole
on December 5th, 2022


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