Merry Christmas!
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:01 pm
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Merry Christmas!
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 2:01 pm
TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE FORUM (you know who you are):
"MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR"
"MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR"
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 2:03 pm
Merry Christmas!
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:35 pm
Merry Christmas to all!
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:48 pm
Let me add my two cents' worth: Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and a very Happy Holiday to those who don't!
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 4:14 pm
Happy Christmas dear Bordenite friends!
Hope all is peaceful and bright wherever you are ...
Hope all is peaceful and bright wherever you are ...
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:05 pm
Hap-Hap-Happy Holidays To You-Every One!
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:15 pm
The Peace of the Season to All... For my sister....Joyeux Noël et bonne année. S'il vous plaît voyager sans accident. Pouvoir Dieu est avec vous.
Tracy...
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:35 pm
I happened upon this earlier today and thought it to make as fitting a Christmas greeting as any - not in the least because it's an aged, enduring relic of Lizzie Borden in her prime. Undoubtely you've heard it, and know the story well - the answer to a child's question. No matter how often we hear, or how well we know, it never loses anything by the repetition.
Accordingly, I give to you all the warmest of holiday wishes - and for a moment, a trip to a gentler place in time:
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Dear Editor! I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun it’s so.” Please tell me the truth: Is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon.
115 West Ninety-Fifth Street.
* * *
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.
There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal life with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.
Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Accordingly, I give to you all the warmest of holiday wishes - and for a moment, a trip to a gentler place in time:
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Dear Editor! I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun it’s so.” Please tell me the truth: Is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon.
115 West Ninety-Fifth Street.
* * *
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.
There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal life with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.
Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:27 pm
I wish I knew how to copy nice pictures like that. I don't so I always have to keep mine simple.
I hope that everyone had a wonderfull Lizzie Borden Chrismas.
I hope that everyone had a wonderfull Lizzie Borden Chrismas.
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:28 pm
oops
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:34 pm
There are many ways to put pictures in post. Audrey introduced me to photobucket.com, which I find VERY easy to use.
1. Go to photobucket.com and set up a FREE account.
2. Open your account and download a picture/photo from your computer. If the picture/photo size is large, you can adjust it using the 'paint' program which comes with Windows.
3. Once you have it d-loaded in photobucket, you will see 3 links below the picture. Right click (highlight) & left click (copy) the IMG link.
4. Paste it into a post (Right click brings up the menu, then left click on 'paste). You can see what the picture will look like if you click on 'preview' before you submit your post.
5. It may sound complicated, but after doing this one time...you will be a pro. Honest. Copy/paste/print these instructions if you want.
Tracy...
1. Go to photobucket.com and set up a FREE account.
2. Open your account and download a picture/photo from your computer. If the picture/photo size is large, you can adjust it using the 'paint' program which comes with Windows.
3. Once you have it d-loaded in photobucket, you will see 3 links below the picture. Right click (highlight) & left click (copy) the IMG link.
4. Paste it into a post (Right click brings up the menu, then left click on 'paste). You can see what the picture will look like if you click on 'preview' before you submit your post.
5. It may sound complicated, but after doing this one time...you will be a pro. Honest. Copy/paste/print these instructions if you want.
Tracy...
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:14 am
Thanks. I got the account but I am playing around with it trying to figure it out. I will get it.