Tag: christmas
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December 19, 2023
Every year, I read Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and every year, it convinces me that it is never too late to change. In the same way, I remember reading Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia for the first time, encountering this sentence: “He felt there in the teachers’ room that it was the beginning of…
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September 27, 2022
A Very Mercy Christmas goes out into the world today. I will be walking around the neighborhood putting this story of friendship and pigs, starlight and singing, neighbors and toast into Little Free Libraries here and there. It cheers me up to do this. And I hope whoever finds a copy will be cheered, too.…
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February 14, 2022
Is it odd to be thinking about Christmas on Valentine’s Day? Maybe. But Chris Van Dusen has made the beautiful, heartfelt art for A Very Mercy Christmas—it will make you fall in love with the world. And with the pig. Coming this fall. Yippie-i-oh! As Leroy Ninker would say. Reactions: 4.5K Comments: 336 Original Post
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January 5, 2021
Christmas has come and gone and I am still thinking about Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. I re-read it every year. The passage that haunted me this year comes toward the end of the book, after Scrooge has been visited by the three ghosts. It goes like this: “He went to church, and walked about the…
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December 21, 2017
A friend said to me recently, “All I want to do these days is sit beside the Christmas tree and read.” I know exactly what he means. Except I sit under the Christmas tree. I lie on the floor, beneath the protective canopy of the tree. I hold the book above my head, and the…
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December 29, 2015
I’ve gotten into the habit over the last few years of re-reading Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol during the holidays. I read it because it makes me laugh and because it moves me and because it teaches me about the human heart. I’ve got several different copies of the book, but the one I keep…