{"id":82,"date":"2009-05-08T17:20:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T17:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-05-08T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T17:20:34","slug":"tis-the-seasonentry-for-december-7-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Tis The Season…….Entry for December 7, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tis the season….anywhere you are. If the magic of Christmas doesn’t touch you somehow, someway-then you ain’t alive! Traditionally, for myself, Susan and I will settle in and watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” (the B&W version) and I’m there. Tonight in New York, my routine walk around Madison Square Garden with my hot cup of tea at break—the wind was stong and cold. Bundled up shoppers everwhere and the smell of hot pretzles cooking from the street venders. Why is it that we can’t forget our troubles the way we forget our blessings? We are truely blesssed to come from such a large family.–when we remember growing up together—most of us bring up Christmas as our favorite memories. Pure magic, when you are a child. The Sears special toy cataloge. Pick out…One big toy and two small ones. The countdown to Christmas. Putting up the tree together. Watching Charlie Brown and Frosty the snowman…..The Grinch’s Roast Beast! And the magic of all of us running down the stairs together….we were so excited that we forgot to plug in the tree until ten o’clock! The SEA of toys…the overwhelming feeling of joy and family. The sounds of all those toys. It was the GREATEST mess in the world…..one that you never wanted to clean up……because you want it to last forever! Even after Dad died Mom tried so hard to keep the magic. Most of us have children now….and our deepest desires of the heart are to make Christmas magical for them too. To remind them what this day is REALLY about. Make A BIG MESS this Christmas and don’t worry about cleaning it up. Catch the sparkle in your childrens eyes and take it with you wherever you go. Let your heart guide you…..it whispers…..listen closely. Tis the season.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tis the season….anywhere you are. If the magic of Christmas doesn’t touch you somehow, someway-then you ain’t alive! Traditionally, for myself, Susan and I will settle in and watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” (the B&W version) and I’m there. Tonight … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasons","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}