Merry Christmas

Big Frank had the pleasure of spending Christmas with family and a good friend. It is a time of the year, whatever your religous views, that centers on goodwill, good thoughts, and connections. Big Frank was lucky to have his mother and her husband with him along with his daughter, and his good friend, Magne.

However, given this emphasis that this blog has on poetry, it seems appropriate to put in some lines of poetry that fit the season. These are not necessary Ho Ho Ho lines, or amazing grace has lit upon us, or green spangles and jingly bells etc.; no, they are lines that carry good solid messages that are worth thinking about and that could apply anytime, but given that this time of the year we want to think that we have substantial thoughts - well, these are substantial - so think about them.

"Love in full life and length, not love ideal,
No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name,
But something better still, so very real . . ." Lord Byron

"If you are the dreamer, I am what you dream,
But when you want to wake, I am your wish,
and I grow strong with all magnificence
and turn myself into a star's vast silence
above the strange and distant city, Time." Rainer Maria Rilke

"I miss it so much
No button to touch
No dial to turn
No key to hold" Royksopp

"If the gods bring to you
a strange and frightening creature,
accept the gift
as if it were one you had chosen." Jane Hirshfield

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"Life on earth is quite a bargain.

Dreams, for one, don't charge admission.

Illusions are costly only when lost.

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The body has its own installment plan.

And as an extra, added feature,

you spin on the plantets' carousel for free,

and with it you hitch a ride on the intergallactic blizzard,

with times so dizzying

that nothing here on earth can even tremble." Wislawa Szymborska

Remember: What it is!