Merry Christmas
Time for most of you on the slow, lagging side of the International Date Line to read that bedtime story, "The Night Before Christmas."As for me, I got up so early this Seoul Christmas morning that I actually encountered old St. Nick himself squeezing his round body through the tiny exhaust pipe that sticks out the window from our clothes dryer!
I lied. We don't have a clothes dryer . . . though we surely could use one for Christmas.
But I swear that I did get up early enough to catch Santa flying off from Seoul! Moreover:
A very merry Christmas from Gypsy Scholar.. . . I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 6:10 AM
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And a very merry Christmas to you and yours!
We'll be reading that poem to the kids tonight...
Kate "No-Doctorate-Poetry-Posting-Fundie-Catholic" Marie
Thanks, Kate Marie, and may you resolve your identity crisis in the new year!
it's well and truly over here - 2am Boxing morning but we're ahead of everyone - so Happy Christmas and have a wonderful holiday Gypsy Jeff and gang.
Ah yes, Boxing Day, that inexplicable British holiday established in honor of St. Pugnacious.
Perhaps I should blog on it.
Steph, I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and that you'll have a safe Boxing Day.
I think you should. I was preparing my list of people to go out and punch after lunch today.
I left my copy in New York, where until October 31 we lived in an 1840 brownstone with a view to the other old houses in our neighborhood. On my son's first chirstmas in 2005, I read it to him each night during the month of December ... It seemed so appropritate, in that setting, only a few blocks from the house in which it was written.
Berlinbound, you must know the entire poem by heart if you read it to your son every night!
I used to know it by heart myself back when I was a kid, but that mastery has slipped away with the years.
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