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- DISCOVERING OUR NARRATIVE, A PROCESS WE CALL LIFE
- ON OUR MISTAKES, SOMETIMES WE FEEL HOPELESS, AND LONELY
- A FEW THINGS ABOUT MY DAILY ROUTINE, AND MAYBE TRAVELING SOON.
- REFLECTIONS FROM AN OLD MAN ABOUT HIS PAST
- RUMORS OF WARS AND SUFFERING
- MY LOVE OF BOOKS, AND MY READING SAGA, A STORY OF LOVE, WONDER, HEARTBREAK, AND BACK PAIN.
- ON MYSTICISM AND MEISTER ECKHART
- A BEUTIFUL DAY TRHOUGH MY WINDOW THE HOPE OF A NEW YEAR
- REFLECTIONS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, AND PRESENT.
- HISTORY OF DREAMING, AND CONNECTION WITH SPIRIT, THIRD PART
- DREAM INTERPRETATION AND IT’S PROBLEMS. SECOND PART.
- ON DREAMING, A SEARCH FOR KNOLEDGE OF THE SELF. FIRST PART.
REFLECTIONS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, AND PRESENT.
Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee—
Often I think of the beautiful town
‘Tis death! and peace, indeed, is here,
I would go back, but the ways are winding,
Delight it is in youth and May
Why does a date-palm lose its leaves in autumn?
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Dao. I have great memories of our holiday times together. You are never alone. It was nice to see in your blog the writings by Longfellow. It has been years since I’ve read anything by him. I used to love Longfellow, Holmes, and Lowell. The Cambridge poets, back in high school. As well as Emerson & Whitman. Nice to revisit. Hope you are contented and healthy 4 the holidays and best new year!
Thank you Dao!
Best wishes to you, your family, and the many common friends we have, say hello from my part. 😉
such a rich literature and photographic journey in this post – well done
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I bookmarked this post to come back and poor over the classic lit a bit more
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Happy holidays
Thank you, and happy holydays too.
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“A boy’s will is the wind’s will.” — what a nifty line. 🙂
Yes, very clever.
I have memories of so many holidays. Thanks for the poems that help me enjoy them.
Beautiful post.
Precious memories, no doubt, thank you Don and wish you Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!😊
Beautiful post. Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and a restorative 2022.
Thank you, and likewise, have a Merry Christmas, and hopefully a New Year, where you can travel, to delight us with your adventures on those trips.
Fingers crossed. Thanks.
Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
Thank you Ned, happy Holidays!
Thank you for the beautiful quotes, Mr Anaya. Being single (to this day), I have spent Christmas on my own for many years because I was usually in foreign countries far away from family. Even today, back in my own country, I’m still not near family.
The ‘problem’ with Christmas is that it’s specifically a time for family, but there are so many people who don’t have family nearby, or at all. Single people who are ex-foster kids, or adult adopted children, homeless people, people in institutions, single ex-pats or simply people who are estranged from their families. It makes them feel extra alone, or causes them to reflect on being alone, which otherwise might not have been on their mnd.
Personally I have adapted to Christmas to the extent that I look forward to it – it’s a couple if days of real peace and quiet for a work-a-holic like me. A meditational time used for reflecting on the year past and te year to come. Wishing you a peaceful and restful Christmas from somebody who will spend it alone, as usual 🙂 . My thoughts will be with everyone else who are on their own during that time.
Jean-Jacques
I have been alone most of my life since I was on my own, at barely eighteen years of age, except for the three times I lived with a wife, and later with two girlfriends, last one was in 1995, I do have children, now grown ups, and some with their own families, so you can say I have being alone now for twenty and six years.
Do I celebrate Christmas?
I was invited on many occasions, to Christmas gatherings by friends, no doubt out of courtesy, knowing I live alone, but of course at the end of the night I am back at home with myself, do not mind, I am used to.
I respect family life, and do not mind, or give too much thought to it, but occasionally, like I figure most people on our condition may think will be nice to be with someone really nice, but the reality of life asserts itself, and not knowing such person yet, and I not mean a nice woman, undoubtedly they may be millions of them, but so far one interested in me has no being present into my life, and say: Here I am.
By the way, best wishes to you, and Merry Christmas! 🤷♂️😉
Your description fits my circumstances quite closely as I left home at age 17, same also for invitations over Christmas, I fully appreciate your thoughts, because it’s the reality I think for quite a lot of people. Fortunately in that sense we are not alone. Merry Christmas to you!
J.J.
Thank you Jean-Jaques, we also wish you a Merry Christmas!
Well, at this point in life I am not oppose to a relationship, if it comes naturally, but neither I am seeking it actively.
Best wishes.
Lovely poems on Christmas and the holidays. Although I’ve been lonely, I really enjoy quiet times alone. After many years of marriage and working, I finally have gift of being alone, at least to the extent that I want it.
This Christmas, along with my sister, I’ll be visiting my niece and her partner in Albuquerque, so I won’t be alone. She just bought her first house, and this is my first visit out to see it. Somehow I am able to cherish her excitement and am reminded of how grateful I am for my family.
Happy Holidays to you, dear Brigido.
Thank you for sharing a little bit of yours, I ignore if you are Christian, or not, myself Catholic by birth, today SBNR (Spiritual, but not religious) will be the closest thing to define me.
Do I celebrate Christmas, sure I do, do not mind, but if a Jewish family invite me to Hanukkah, or a Moslem to Eid Al-Fitr, or Yalda, I will celebrate that too!🤷♂️ 😉
So Happy Holidays to you Debra! 💖
You’re welcome, Brigido. Having joined and left 5 churches, I’m trying not to make it 6 :). So, I guess I’m in the SBNR group as well. I have friends of a variety of persuasions and am open and curious to pretty much anything.
Albuquerque is lovely, and I am grateful for this family time together.
Happy holidays to you!
I kind of smile Debra, when I lived in LA together with a friend we will go as visitors on Sunday to every imaginable church, and cult you can imagine, for the last fifteen years over there I lived in a place so strategically located, between Los Feliz and Hollywood, with almost every church imaginable having a chapter there, never joined one but it was nice to attend services, and conferences, by respected, and some very famous people, the PRS was within walking distance, and they had every Sunday a guest speaker, it was fun, until I left LA, but never become a member of any, I did that when I was 19 years old, it only took about three, years to realize my mistake, and left. 🤦♂️🤣🤷♂️
Lovely photos. Nice quotations. At least with a blog community, you’re never alone.
The picture of the Christmas tree coming out of the tiny red car is adorable.
How did things go with you finding a new place to live??
Thank you for your concern dear, yes now I am settled again, actually this new place it’s better than the last one, bigger, and newer, but it also has a drawback, it’s pretty far, and it takes much longer to go, where I need to.
Well I never feel alone, I am always busy with my chores, time it’s what I need most, and we are running with age out of it, I am afraid…
Happy holidays to you, and your family dear!
I’m so delighted you found a place you like even better! Too bad about the distance, but I guess you get more exercise! 😛
Happy holidays to you as well. 🙂
Such it’s life an eternal compromise, and the nature things.
Enjoy the Holiday.😊💖
Thank you for sharing your wonderful writing..it does bring back of our Christmas in the past. Love this Christmas photo and all the others . Thanks for following my site and I love yours . Merry Christmas Anita
Your comment it’s appreciated, we also wish you a Merry Christmas to you Anita, and all your dear ones.😊
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What a wonderful poetic post, dear Mr. Brigido! Haven’t you thought to add some poetry to your philosophical reflections? It would be great! Thank you! :-)🎄🎄🎄🎉🎉🎉
Thank you Maria, maybe one day I will do some poetry, the problem its I will be my worst critic.🤦♂️😉
I very much enjoy your deepgoing thoughts you mentioned ,Mr. Brogido, which I feel very present! I am so lucky to have a small family with whom to be together and enjoy it without having bought big gifts! Of course, for me, too, Christmas is not anymore what it used to be so that I had to learn that the robe of appearance is only a loan! (Rumi)
I wish you a very good Christmas Season and good health in the oncoming year:):)
Thank you Martina, I wish you the same for you, and your loved ones! 😊💖
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Beautiful thoughts and beautiful photos too. I’ve become a big fan of Rumi the past couple of years because of you.
Happy holiday to you and yours, B.H.
Don’t remind me, I got Reynold A. Nicholson, Rumi’s Masnavi whole translation lost in one of the piles of boxes, (three books) from my last move, and also Kenan Rifai commentaries on Rumi Listen!
Now, I go to find them going through the boxes!🤷♂️🤦♂️😒
Thank you for visiting us, I am glad you find Rumi because of me, at least that’s a lucky omen, Happy Holidays for you and your loved ones, dear.😊💖
Here a Rumi’s verse:
I want a kiss from you,
Said my heart.
“Yes but the price is your life.”
My heart leaped with joy, and said:
“Who cares about the price!”
Thank you!
Now, that’s either true dedication or ultimate zen. Maybe both! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Mr Anaya, Happy New Year to you! May it be a good one in spite of the global challenges. Personally I find that when I simply avoid the news for a few days I feel much better. My New Year’s Resolution is to return to reading more books because they have much better quality information (than TV, newspapers, etc) and more truth in them too 🙂 Best wishes for 2022.
I agree with you, reading books it’s my thing, and unfortunately too much time it’s wasted in following news, and whatever it’s online, to lure us away from them, yours it’s a commitment I try to follow as best as I can, unfortunately I am always back on my reading list, at my reading table, I have more than a dozen books, that I read in spurts, and to add to my misfortunes since I moved from home a third time in five years, I got a lot of books in boxes which sometimes I want to consult, or just get back to them, and of course it’s an ordeal, and time consuming activity, to find them, I do not wish on anybody! 😒🤦♂️
Such is life..!🤷♂️
Anyway, sorry for my rant, my best wishes for you on this New Year!😊
Thanks for the words of wisdom, especially that last one by Rumi. 🍸
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Hello, and Happy New Year. Christmas isn’t my holiday, but I love to drive around my area at night in December, looking at the beautiful Christmas displays on people’s houses and lawns. It’s a great show of lights.
I understand, you may have other belief, I was born a Catholic, but even before I was eleven, years of age, I was not anymore, at least I did not consider me one at the time, but today I will celebrate Christmas, Hanukah, Vesak, Al-Hijra, Shab-e Yalda, Inti Raymi, Yule, Precious Purity Festival, Makar Sankrant, Diwali, Kukulkan descent, or you name it, as far as I am concern its all good, and I respect all good traditions, and can be enjoyed by all who has an open mind.
Best wishes for you, and your family.
Wishing you a new year filled with love and hope. Thank you for all your thoughtful comments and posts. Take care.
Thank you, we also wish you the best for this year, and thank you for your post about Mole, I may cook it soon, since I have not done it in quite a while.
Xmass time is gone.
Quite spring…A white Rose of my garden
Spring? Not quite, at least here, it’s pretty chilly! Maybe in March? Will see dear Sherazade, thank you for the flower.😊💖
Today in Rome shining 3/16 degree!!!

Beautiful thought sharing 🙂 Stay Blessed.
Thank you, and Blessings for you as well.😊💖
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