"By the middle of the month, the house is filled with Christmas. And everything about Christmas is exciting to me. I love the smells ~ the pine branches we bring in from the woods, snowy and cold, give forth the most heavenly fragrance, and there is the smell of freshly baked Christmas cookies and fruitcake, and a whiff of spring from the apple logs in the fire.
The sounds are fine sounds too. Tissue paper is mysterious when it crisps under the blue and scarlet ribbons; the crackling of nuts has a good sound; even the tinkle of a blue Christmas ball on the floor is a holiday note...
The color of Christmas is lovely. The deep shining green, and the scarlet and blue, the flame color of the candles in the windows, the rosy glow of the baked ham ~ there are many enchanting colors. The color of Christmas is dramatic, triumphant.
But the best thing of all is that it is a time of friends remembering one another, families gathering together, a time when people open their hearts. It is a time when one can be sentimental and not hide it."
~ Gladys Taber, from the book "Stillmeadow Seasons"
2 comments:
I am glad to say I know there is a little of Gladys Taber's spirit in me as I know is in you too my friend. I love this quote and it sums up the spirit of this time of preparation.
Oh, does anyone say it better than dear Gladys Taber? She speaks the feelings in my heart so often. I love the line, "the sounds are fine sounds too". Isn't that just wonderful?
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