"Christmas is silent. You don't see it...you feel it. You know it. You believe it..." -Kevin Alan Milne
Magic......"Blessed is the season..." -Hamilton Wright Mabie
SEE...."We make a life by what we give..." - Winston Churchill
FAITH......"Give the light of love to those who need it most.." -Ruth Carter Stapleton
HOLD....."
You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving.." -Victor Hugo
"It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.." - St. Teresa of Calcutta
REMEMBER....."Christmas is the day that holds all time together...." - Alexander Smith
LIGHT of the World....."
Christmas, my child, is love in action...." - Dale Evans
BELIEVE.....“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”—Agnes Mae PharoPhotographs 2023
"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly thru the universe and faintly falling,like the descent of their last end,upon all the living and the dead."
-James Joyce (1882-1941) (Modernist avante- garde Irish poet and author)
"You wake up on a winter morning and pull up the shade, and what lay there the evening before is no longer there..."
-Fredrich Buechner (1926-) (Writer and Theologian)
"In your hands, winter is a book with cloud pages that snows pearls of love." -Aberjhani, Journey thru the power of the Rainbow, Quotations of a Life Made out of Poetry
"We can't predict when the cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws." -H.R. Peete
"No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn." -Hal Borland (1900-1978, journalist and naturalist)
"Why do people take notice of first snowfalls, but not of the last......" -Yoseob (1990-) (Singer)
"A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. " -George R.R. Martin ( Game of Thrones)
Photography: M McConachie Woods 2017
