Familiar Joy

Childhood is wet cement. It hardens through the years and lingers as indelible memories in some remote place waiting to be rediscovered.  The molded  impression a thing makes on you as a youngster remains intact after cobwebs fill the corners and fade the details with the passage of time. When you rediscover it and touch it with wonder…

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Shhhh! It’s Coming!

. Shhhh! It’s coming….. . But we have to shhhh  or we’ll miss it. . The “coming.” Advent.  .   According to the dictionary, advent means: a coming into place, view, or being; arrival the coming of Christ into the world. the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas Looking ahead…

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