Fourth Wednesday of Advent
Originally posted Thursday, December 20, 2012
With Christmas upon us, I’ve been wondering why it is that we put so much time and energy into this holy holiday and then quickly brush it aside. I’m particularly curious about how quickly we toss aside the music with the wrapping paper.
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If you watched “Wilshire’s Got Talent” last weekend, you heard LeAnn and me play a duet of “Coventry Carol” on flute and concertina. We chose it in part because we could play it together, but also because it’s just a lovely melody. Somber, haunting, quiet – it’s been a favorite of mine for years, but I have to admit that I didn’t understand what it was about until recently.
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Originally posted Monday, December 24, 2012
Last night while wrapping gifts and baking cookies, LeAnn and I watched an old movie we’d never seen before: It Happened on 5th Avenue. It’s a 1947, black-and-white story about Aloyisius T. McKeever, a hobo who every year sneaks into the 5th Avenue mansion of Michael J. O’Connor, the world’s wealthiest man who has gone to Virginia for the winter.
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