Freeze This Day

Christmas Day is special in each way for each person. Just as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice and New Years. They are days to STOP the hustle, the hassle and the rat race. I, for one, feel more myself when I don’t have to think of getting ahead financially. Siblings with nieces and nephews and grown kids with grandkids all come to hug me and eat my specially made meals. I love it!

Even if for just one day. This year here in the Midwest, we have a whole lot of white snow to add to the feeling of Christmas.

Classical Music stations are filled with stories of the Nutcracke. Music played by orchestras from many parts of the world.

The composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky was educated as a civil servant, as my own Mother was educated. Mother had a symphony of love for her children. Her Single-motherhood took daily courage. Tchaikovsky’s courage allowed emotion to come out from deep inside. And now we have most famously, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Marche Slave, along with his piano and violin concertos, six numbered symphonies and his operas, The Queen of Spades and Eugene Onegin, to name a few. Thank you Mr. Tchaikovsky.

Is this the perfect harmony we are meant to live in?

Vince Gill, Jenny Gill and Marty Paich wrote, Let There Be Peace On Earth.

Today people exercise kindness in a way I wish would happen everyday. There is no rush through this day, it’s special. I feel a prolonged pause through each moment wishing it would never end.

If I were asked to sum up the main message I derived from everything I read this year, I would say that the magic is in the moment. It needs nothing from us but our open mind and heart and to view each person as a brother or a sister.