The Firm Resolve of Ebenezer Scrooge:
"I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year.
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
I will not shut out the lessons that they teach."
from A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
When it came to keeping Christmas all year long, my friend Marv was an expert. He wrote the most amazing Christmas letters, beginning one year with the best ode to Christmas that I've ever read anywhere:
"Still, as always, I look forward to anything 'Christmas,' be it sacred or profane. Quite frankly, I love it all: commercial or spiritual, mall or church, crass or sublime, jaded or sentimental, slow or frantic, sad or comic, regretful or nostalgic, adult or childish, wrapping up or ripping open, giving or spartan, on-line or in line, pine or palm, white or tropical green, it just does not matter; it's all moving and wonderful, magical and grand (and I wish it lasted all year)." ~Marvin Charles Hamilton III, 1955 - 2011
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