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Merry Christmas One & All

12.24.2017 by Jules // Leave a Comment

Merry Christmas to One and All 2018

A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, every one! ~ Tiny Tim; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

I love Charles Dicken’s books.  In a world which sometimes seems a little mad, (and sad), there’s a certain nostalgic comfort in curling up with an old book. Or, to be more accurate in my case, listening to a great book while doing some last minute Christmas cleaning…..

“Tiny Tim’s Ride,” vignette for “Stave 3. The Second of the Three Spirits” by Sol Eytinge, Jr., 4.5 cm high by 9.1 cm wide. The third vignette for the Diamond Edition of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol in Prose: being a ghost story of Christmas (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1869), top, page 56. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.¹

Ah, but if only our world today could be visited today by the ghosts of our future, would it change us?

 


Source:

¹ Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol in Prose: being a ghost story of Christmas, il. Sol Eytinge, Junior. The Diamond Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1869.

Hearne, Michael Patrick, ed. The Annotated Christmas Carol. New York: Avenel, 1989.

Categories // Awesome, Seasonal Tags // Charles Dickens, Christmas 2018, Merry Christmas, Tiny Tim

What Love Means

07.29.2015 by Jules // Leave a Comment

My Philosophy on Love

 

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision.  You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.  Because this is what love is.  Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being “in love,” which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.  ~ Louis de Bernières

Categories // Awesome, Love, News, Philosophy Tags // friendship, life, love, philosophy

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