Comments on: Christmas is done http://blog.flattenme.com/2007/12/14/christmas-is-done/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:56:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Michael Titus http://blog.flattenme.com/2007/12/14/christmas-is-done/#comment-129 Michael Titus Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:51:51 +0000 http://blog.flattenme.com/2007/12/14/christmas-is-done/#comment-129 Christmas morning. The tree is tall as a ship and filled with stars that mirror the twinkle in the eyes of the child, who has barely slept -- for it took forever for this day to arrive. Packages are torn open, ribbons undone, bows like spindrift leaves settle to the carpet. A quick look to the window. Yes! It is snowing still (a thought of a day of play and the sliding, falling, icy shapes of themselves out there building laughing running till exhausted and then cocoa and the warmth of the soft tree lights again). Another gift. Ah, a book. Oh! For a moment there is a hush so deep that you hear a twig walking home by way of the windowpane. "Me? A book about me?" The pages turn slowly: "I wonder what I do ThenBecauseIf...!" May the story always be so, for as long as forever is. Well done, Margo. Merry Christmas to us all. ~michael Christmas morning. The tree is tall as a ship and filled with stars that mirror the twinkle in the eyes of the child, who has barely slept — for it took forever for this day to arrive. Packages are torn open, ribbons undone, bows like spindrift leaves settle to the carpet. A quick look to the window. Yes! It is snowing still (a thought of a day of play and the sliding, falling, icy shapes of themselves out there building laughing running till exhausted and then cocoa and the warmth of the soft tree lights again). Another gift. Ah, a book. Oh! For a moment there is a hush so deep that you hear a twig walking home by way of the windowpane. “Me? A book about me?” The pages turn slowly: “I wonder what I do ThenBecauseIf…!”

May the story always be so, for as long as forever is.

Well done, Margo. Merry Christmas to us all.

~michael

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