The Resolute Woman

Category: holidays

  • Holidays with family

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    Jerry and I spent Easter last year, Thanksgiving last year, Christmas last year and New Year’s Day this year without our children. Because of COVID, of course. This year, we have had two doses of vaccine, and we spent Easter with our daughter Mary Elizabeth and her husband Jesús. It was a splendid day. Mary…

  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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    May the leprechauns be near you To spread luck along your way. And may all the Irish angels Smile upon you St. Patrick’s Day!

  • May your hope have feathers

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    May there be hope perching in your soul! May your hope have feathers so that it can be your companion during the next year. As Emily Dickinson said, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”

  • After Christmas

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    Christmas is over. I am wearing a new sweater, and, despite all the chocolate and pie and mashed potatoes I ate, I can still squeeze into my jeans. And, despite the pandemic, there was love and hope and peace on Christmas day. May that love and hope and peace linger with all of us into…

  • Christmas hope and joy

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    Last night, my husband Jerry and I watched an online production of “A Christmas Carol” created by the Dallas Theater Center. If there wasn’t a pandemic, we would have been watching a live performance with singing and dancing and a stage full of actors and actresses—and we would have been watching with our children. Going…

  • Christmas is a state of mind

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    Here is a quote I have always liked. “Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” I always thought the words came from Charles Dickens, but I just checked. Those words came…

  • Christmas trees

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    Our Christmas tree is decorated. We have a decoration that Jerry and I bought at a Christmas store in Michigan only one or two years after we married. And, Christmas balls that we bought the first year we were married. But, the best decorations are the ones that our children made throughout the years. This…

  • Christmas flowers

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    We have a vase of red and white flowers on the kitchen table, and a lovely poinsettia in the entry hall. Flowers are lovely any time of the year, especially at Christmas and especially poinsettias. “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful. They are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul,” Luther Burbank…

  • Christmas magic

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    Who believes in Santa Claus? Who believes in the spirit of Christmas—even during a pandemic? “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it,” Roald Dahl once said.

  • Christmas presents

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    I love buying presents. This year, because of the crazy virus, I have thoroughly enjoyed buying lots of presents. But, I am reminded of something important by Mother Theresa, who said: “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” –Joy