Ridley's Believe It
Or Not—December 25, 2014:
Trust Santa visited your home with gifts and not lumps of coal and your heart
and soul received the gift of peace. As always, I hope you enjoy
the holidays and observances, factoids and a relevant quote from Toni Sorenson,
with a smile on your face, knowing that after a Christmas feast with friends
and family you saved room for a slice of pumpkin pie, blessed with a positive
attitude even though you know you will have to wade through tons of spam in
your inbox, and secure in the knowledge that if
you want to find a gift for a memorable event, you know that the Alaskanpoet
can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the
event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details. Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year!
1. Christmas —celebrating a day
in which all of you I hope under the tree or in the stocking also found the
lasting and most valuable gift, the gift of peace to enjoy today and to give
and enjoy each and every day in the waning days of this year and in 2015—Merry Christmas.
2. National Pumpkin
Pie Day—celebrating a Christmas dinner ending treat.
3. Whistler’s Day—celebrating not that unique ability
to make an audio affirmative response to Lauren Bacall’s classic cinematic
question but rather the birthday on this day in 1899 of one of the classic
icons of all acting Humphrey Bogart, who like far too many smokers died of lung
cancer far too early at the age of 57.
4. 1966 Number One Song—celebrating
the number one song on this day in 1966 I’m
a Believer by the Monkees.
On this day in
a. 336 A.D. the first documented celebration of Christmas in ancient Rome; for
the first 300 years following the birth of Christ, even as Christianity spread
and grew Christ’s birth was not celebrated and in Rome was overshadowed by the
pagan festival of Saturnalia when Romans feasted, exchanged gifts and gave alms
to the poor.
b. 1815 the Handel and Haydn Society, the
oldest performing arts association in the United States gave its first
performance.
c. 1868 as a means to reunite the country
President Andrew Johnson the first president to be impeached but not convicted
granted amnesty to all Confederate soldiers.
d. 1914 sadly on the Western Front, the Christmas Truce which began on
Christmas Eve ended and the dogs of war were once again released with all their
maiming and killing fury. The event is memorialized in the cinema and at http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2014/12/christmas-truce-1914.html
e. 1974 in what has to have been a wakeup call for White House security
obviously as 2014 proved not listened to, Marshall Fields dressed in Arab
clothing drove his Impala through a White House gate stopping a few feet from
the entrance and after four hours of negotiations because he had claimed the
presence of explosives surrendered.
Reflections on Christmas gift giving: ““Christmas is about giving from the
heart more than giving from the store.” Toni Sorenson noted American author On this
brief quote Toni is directly on point to the potential disappointment of
retailers who need Christmas to survive.
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