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Join us in the countdown to Christmas. Sorry no chocolate!
But we can give you a new post each day, from 25 different 'mobloggers', who will give us their perspective on the season.
Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a splendid New Year.
May 2015 be a good year for our small community and the wider world!
Posted by LynnDouglas
Thanks for sharing this Lynn.
I think Christmas is a time of mixed emotions for many of us but being together with friends and family and sharing the pleasure of the day memories and hopes makes it a special time x
Moved by your post.
I too have family members that are no longer with us but are remembered in our hearts
Wishing you and yours a Happy Christmas
Seasons Greetings Lynn,
Your touching words of being sat with Maria, remembering, and sharing a very personal gift of a Christmas tree, is surely what giving and receiving is all about at this time of year. Thank you for reminding us in such a loving and poignant way.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Bill
I too am very moved by your post, but how lovely that you have chosen to celebrate with her each year. Hoping you have a peaceful christmas. We shall be lighting some lanterns and letting them go with messages on, particularly this year for my father who died in April this year and whom I miss so very much. Raising a glass to absent friends.
I love how you honour your sister, Lynn. To me these symbolic acts are the most definitive act of existence. The giving and receiving of our most basic gifts of the human condition, exchanging love for death, memory for pain, distance for presence. My closest circle lost a friend over Xmas. Our remembrance is not co-ordinated but is often symbolically encoded to us, so we instantly recognize it and follow suit. It's both for everybody but just for us. That's also why I love the singing Auld Lang Syne at the end of the year. It's one of the few experiences that bring everyone together under an invocation that needs no external authority except our shared experience.
+1 to raising a glass to absent friends!
I thank you all for your very special comments.
Merry Christmas to one and all!
Absences are most keenly felt at this time of year. Surround yourself with the people you love and remember the happy times.
With all good festive wishes to you and your family x
Thank you for sharing this, sending love, strength and all the best of the season