Christmas below the Tropic of Cancer
Those venerable among us have long since passed away,
so we’ll make do with newer friends on this Christmas day.
We will light our candles and cook the spiral ham.
Eat the sugar cookies filled with nuts and jam.
We’ll enjoy the babble around the Christmas table
and squeeze another helping of pie in if we’re able.
The sounds and tastes of Christmas are fraught with memories—
with bubble lights upon the tree and packages to squeeze,
but the nice thing about memories is that we keep on making them,
for supplementing memories does not mean we’re forsaking them!
Prompt words for the day are candle, fraught, babble, venerable and sound.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Ah, bubble lights. They fascinated me when I was a child. The rest of my favorite childhood Christmas memories include you, sister dear.
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Me too, Patti. Gloria sent me a video of Bing and Frank singing White Christmas and it raised a tear or two..Wanna do a duet of Silver Bells later? I have one remaining bubble light. Wish I had a string of them. I have it on a regular string of lights and it works sporadically.. not right now. Needs to get hot enough.
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Love your colorful tree, Judy. ❤ Merry Christmas from snowy Canada. 🙂
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Thanks, Olga. Merry Christmas from Sunny Mexico!!!
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That’s an adorable tree, Judy. And it’s good to acknowledge long ago and more recent holiday memories are both worthy. Feliz Navidad!
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Tambien. Hope you have a great holiday, Eilene.
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Merry Christmas, Judy. Those Christmas stockings/santa sacks look very full. Someone is going to be very happy.
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They were. They especially loved the musical, light-show spinning tops! Like little kids. Merry Christmas, Tracy.
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I couldn’t refrain from commenting. Well written!
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