Santa

I unearth this photo every Christmas hidden amongst the decorations.

I sure loved that sweet boy.

The goat, not Santa.

Well, I love Santa too.

Oliver with Santa 2018

Today, may we all... take a deep breath, slow down, 

 believe in miracles,

awaken to a sense of wonder and awe,

and trust that love makes it possible to believe in all things.

Grab a cup of your favorite warm beverage, sit down & enjoy for a moment.

"Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus"

by Francis Pharcellus Church 

Published in The New York Sun

1897

"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 to your life it's 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 light with which childhood fills the world

would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus!

You might as well not believe in fairies!

...The most real things in the world are those that neither

children nor {grown-ups} can see.

Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn?

Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there.

You 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 {grown-up}...

that ever lived, could tear apart.

Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance,

can push aside that curtain and view...

the beauty and glory beyond.

Is it all real?

Ah, Virginia,

in all this world there is nothing else so 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."

I believe...

xoxo

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