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The Alternative Advent Calendar

  • Posted on December 9, 2018 at 9:49 pm

Advent door 10Merry Midwinter’s countdown to Christmas with a difference!

DOOR NUMBER TEN:

Wherever you are, stop what you are doing for a couple of minutes and take a look around you. Really look around you. It doesn’t matter if you are just pottering along doing repetitive, mundane chores.

What do you see?

How do you feel about where you currently are?
Is it a nice place? Does it make you feel whole, happy, fulfilled, festive and positive?
Or does it leave you feeling down, depleted, overwhelmed, sad or negative?

What can you do to magnify the positive  aspects and what can you do to eliminate or decrease the negative effects?

Blessings to you all.

ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS TREE…

  • Posted on November 16, 2017 at 1:17 pm
Eileen's Christmas Tree

Sometimes the little things can mean the most.

When is the right time to put up your Christmas Tree?

In the 19th Century it was usually the custom to put the Tree up on Christmas Eve, but in a room which could be shut or locked to prevent the rest of the family (aka the children) from seeing it until its candles were lit and it stood in all its spellbinding and breath-taking glory to welcome the family at dusk on Christmas Day. In my own childhood we bought the Tree some time in December, but then left it outside, somewhere sheltered, standing in a bucket of water to keep it fresh. Christmas Eve afternoon was always spent bringing in the Tree and decorating it, while my mother cooked and baked in the steamy hot kitchen, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge played on the radio and animals and humans alike became increasingly excited… and exhausted! Continue reading ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS TREE……

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