Christmas cards



I love receiving Christmas cards with pictures and the first picture card  I received this year has a picture of a friend, Charles, who has been in and out of my life for over fifty years.    He is a veteran, a man of honor, a loving husband, a father and a talented painter and should be a writer.    He is a man of words and the words he utters to family and friends are always uplifting and loving.   Yes. . . a Christmas hug from Charles lasts all year.  So Charles I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Bright and Beautiful New Year.



There is a young lady here in Brookings who has come up with an idea for those old and unwanted television cabinets and is making little play kitchens for the children.    I remember my granddaughter had a cute kitchen set but nothing like this.  This is solid and should make happy play time for children.     Some people are so clever, just chalk full of ideas to make little lives merry and bright.   

The news yesterday is about as bad as it gets when our seconds were filled with the horror of a shooting of twenty kindergarten children and seven adults.  Our hearts break in small pieces each time we hear of such tragic events.  Today, take a moment to light a candle for the families who are suffering untold suffering and sorrow . . . and remember the victims of the mall shooting just a few days ago.   There is an old adage "our is not to reason why, ours is to do and die"   so go about doing. . . start with you. . . , make the necessary changes that will bring about a belief in ten small commandments that will change all of our lives forever.    Hugs to all.