Christmas 365

If you've read very many posts on this blog, you may have realized that I work on Christmas stuff year 'round. Someone on a Christmas Yahoo! group that I belong to recently posted this poem. I think it sums up my reasoning for my Christmas "passion"!

I Keep a Part of Christmas

I keep a part of Christmas,

For it helps to add a glow

To the January darkness

And the February snow.

If March is cold and blustery

And though April brings us rain,

The peace and warmth of Christmas

With its happiness remain.

I keep a part of Christmas

Through the summer hot and dry,

Through the soft bright days of Junetime

And the heat of mid-July.

Through the harvest of September

and October's golden days

In the city's haste and hurry

And the summer quiet ways.

Yes, I keep a part of Christmas

With its beauty soft and rare.

I can hear the Christmas music

All about me, everywhere.

Matters not the time or season

There is beauty to impart

If forever I remember

To keep Christmas in my heart.

There's a beauty when its Christmas.

All the world is different then.

There's no place for petty hatred

In the hearts and minds of men.

That is why my heart is happy

And my mind can hold a dream.

For I keep a part of Christmas

with its peace and joy supreme.

--Garnett Ann Schultz

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