Weekend of Dec 30-Jan 1st with JCC and around town:
Highlights: Fireworks, music, skiing, worship plus sneak peek of a few January activities to put on your 2023 calendar! FRI, Dec 30 SAT, Dec 31 – NEW YEARS EVE SUN, Jan 1 – NEW YEARS DAY
Day 6 of 12 Days of Christmas: Six geese
Wild Geese — Frederick Peterson How oft against the sunset sky or moonI watched that moving zigzag of spread wingsIn unforgotten Autumns gone too soon,In unforgotten Springs!Creatures of desolation, far they flyAbove all lands bound by the curling foam; In misty lens, wild moors and trackless skyThese wild things have their home.They know the tundra […]
Day 5 of 12 Days of Christmas: Five Gold Rings
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson The ring is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual bond, which unites two hearts in love. — Traditional blessing of wedding rings Those made of common metals served […]
Day 4 of 12 Days of Christmas: Four Calling Birds
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? — Rose Kennedy Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. — Proverb Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all […]
Day 3 of 12 Days of Christmas: French Hens
What happens to me when I cross the Piscataqua and plunge rapidly into Maine at a cost of seventy-five cents in tolls? I cannot describe it. I do not ordinarily spy a partridge in a pear tree, or three French hens, but I do have the sensation of having received a gift from a true […]