Showing posts with label Aretha Franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aretha Franklin. Show all posts
Friday, December 6, 2013
Hark all the bells
Yesterday, I had just settled down for a long winter's nap when Henry ripped open the package of new printer ink with a clatter, and I sprang up from my bed and cried What is the matter? It was the wrong ink for the printer, and it cost $50 and I knew, I just knew that I'd have to swallow the money and go buy another one. I bowed my head and maybe even shed a tear because you know it's the small things, and when Henry looked at me and asked what was wrong, I wiped it away, set my thin lips in a line, sighed and drove back to Staples. The manager was young, but I took my chance and asked him whether there was any place I could perhaps sell the wrong ink that I'd bought. When what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a smile on his lips and the response that yes, no problem. You can just exchange it. He walked away. My eyes how they twinkled! My dimples so merry! And when I laughed, my belly shook like a bowl full of jelly.
Like all of that. My own little Christmas miracle. So, hallelujah and hark all the bells and don't you want to hear one Christmas carol, one of my favorites?
Here it is.
Reader, let's be more interactive and jolly. Tell me about your little Christmas miracle.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Christmas Carol of the Day
With apologies to all those who hate Christmas -- no bad feelings! -- I am happy to post the first of twenty-four carols of the day, a tradition I started four years ago on this blog. If you have any suggestions for carols that you love, please let me know. I am interested especially in weird or particularly gorgeous renditions of holiday songs.
One of my favorites is this -- turn it up LOUD -- and forgive the cheesiness of the video. When The Queen belts out O Tannebaum, I always get chills.
One of my favorites is this -- turn it up LOUD -- and forgive the cheesiness of the video. When The Queen belts out O Tannebaum, I always get chills.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Carol of the Day #2
The video is unbearably awful, but this might be my favorite carol -- don't know why Queen Aretha's voice makes me want to cry in the goofiest way --
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