Day: December 24, 2007

Christmas Day

So hallowed and so gracious is the time—these lines from the first scene of Hamlet in a sense say it all. We tend to think of time as progression, as moment following moment, day following day, in relentless flow, the kind of time a clock or calendar can measure. But we experience time also as depth, as having quality as well as quantity—a good time, a dangerous time, an auspicious time, a time we mark not by its duration but by its content.

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The original St. Nick

Canon Jim Rosenthal’s alter ego is the star of this You Tube video filmed on Saint Nicholas Day in Canterbury. Rowan Williams has a supporting

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Merry Christmas

I put the old glass ornaments up high, but obviously not high enough. As I heard the smash of glass scattering into the mix of fir needles and dust bunnies, I thought, “Ahhh – now it is Christmas.” Sweeping up the fuchsia colored shards and needles so we don’t have to give the vacuum cleaner hose one more tracheotomy, I found that I had come to a new place about Christmas.

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