A Charlie Brown Christmas, snippets on YouTube by FlyingForGlory
Patty: Try to catch snowflakes on your tongue. It’s fun.
Linus Van Pelt: Mmm. Needs sugar.
Lucy Van Pelt: It’s too early. I never eat December snowflakes. I always wait until January.
Linus Van Pelt: They sure look ripe to me.
I love to watch the snow fall. I’m a huge fan of Winter. I’m also a big Peanuts fan and watch A Charlie Brown Christmas every single year (you can’t beat Vince Guaraldi’s score). The snow theme captures the best of both worlds for me. I’m not apt to take Lucy’s advice though. I love December snowflakes!
There are two other shows I make sure not to miss over the Holidays: Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol and A Christmas Story. I’m sad to say that Bob Clark, the director of 1983’s A Christmas Story, died unexpectedly earlier this year (see Remembrances on NPR). His cult classic will live on.
I’ve also been inspired by a couple of snow posts by fellow bloggers. One is on Joe Felso: Ruminations, 13 Ways Of Looking At Snow, a tribute to Wallace Stevens. And Snow Sculptures at Leslie’s Blog, complete with vintage black and white photographs. You won’t be disappointed.
It’s Christmas Eve. This is my last post for a few days. I’ll be checking in once in a while for comments. But what I really want to say is thanks for writing with us and visiting red Ravine. We are grateful for your presence here. And thanks to my faithful blogging partner, ybonesy, for holding up the other half of the sky.
It’s still and silent outside the window this morning. The storms of yesterday have passed. The day Moon is clear. Liz pointed it out to me off the deck this morning on her way to work. And have I thanked you enough Lizzie for all of your patience and support around my crazy writing life?
Finally, whoever is reading and writing with us, however you celebrate this time of year, I hope your Holidays are sweet.
-posted on red Ravine, Monday, December 24th, 2007
A while back, I posted about growing up with radio instead of TV. Jean Shepard was my favorite radio personality. He wrote and narrated the Christmas story.
I added a PS to my “heard it on the radio” post when Bob Clark died.
The Christmas Story is THE classic Christmas tale, is it not??
Have a very Merry Christmas, and listen to the quiet as you look at the moon tonight.
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We don’t have snow. I imagine it to be something very magical. I’m sure it’s not. I bet people who have been around snow think of the sludge and dampened clothes. I’d love to be able to make a snow angel before I die and throw a pile or two (or a thousand) of snowballs.
Have a blessed holiday with your family, QM! 😀
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Thanks QuoinMonkey and ybonesy for a great year (well, I joined it around August/September, but even so!)
It’s always been a pleasure to visit here, as well as sometimes a challenge, often moving, or amusing, or interesting, or thought-provoking… even humbling too on at least one memorable occasion – Can I name a zillion emotions in ten seconds flat?
Through all the hours spent surfing redravine, there has always been one constant: the business of writing has been tucked in there inside every other agenda like a constant companion.
In the end, the fact that my obsession at promoting Rainring cards is matched by your obsession about writing has produced, I feel, a nice combination of symmetry and asymmetry.
Enjoy your festive season, and eat a snowflake for me, I doubt we’ll see any here during the next few days!
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Merry Christmas Eve, QM and Liz. And I echo the sentiment expressed here — it’s been great writing with all of you. This blog and the people who come here and comment and write with us inspire in ways I never, ever would have believed when we first started. That’s been a gift. XXOO
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At least they’re not blue snowflakes 😦
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Merry Christmas to Quoin Monkey and ybonesy, two people who have created a beautiful blog for writers and artists.
Thank-you from the redRavine community. Thank-you for your quality work, your comments, your encouragement, and taking the time to make something of this caliber. I’m proud of you and this blog.
Love and friendship to you both. XOXO
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Happy Holidays to you both, Ybonesy and QuoinMonkey.
I have Guaraldi’s score on my iPod… I listen to it over and over at this time of year.
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Merry Christmas QM & Ybonesy!
Thank you for the outstanding gift of the redRavine community. May blessings return to you a hundred-fold, in the new year and always.
Sending you love by the light of the full moon & a hug.
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Santa just left our place, and I’m heading to bed… peace to all.
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Feliz Navidad,Fröhliche Weihnachten,Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto, Gun Tso Sun Tan’Gung Haw Sun, Joyeux Noel, Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom, Nadolig Llawen, Buone Feste Natalizie or Merry Christmas.
No matter how you say it nor where you celebrate it…
Have a very Merry Christmas everybody.
H 🙂
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Merry Christmas QM, YB, familes, & friends! Inspire peace! I hope everyones day is overflowing with joy & happiness in their hearts! Aways..D
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Thanks, everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
Teri, D, H, pm, bp, lb, stranger, liz, leslie, thank you so much for being part of our community! Hope Santa was good to you. Quiet and peaceful here in the snowy Midwest. Oh, how I love how everything slows down. 8)
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There are 4 volumes of Jean Sheppard’s short stories on my bookshelf at work. I loan them out to my co-workers as pick-me-ups when someone is down. I put Sheppard in the same category as David Sedaris and Dave Barry for comic writing genius. They all make me laugh right out loud.
As for Guaraldi – I play the Charlie Brown Christmas CD starting the day after Thanksgiving all through the holidays. It drives my family crazy. 😉
It started as a cookie-baking tradition with my next door neighbor about 18 years ago back when I lived in Ferndale, just outside of Detoit. We played the same CD over and over and over until all the cookies were baked. Fran was my best friend and we were both going through divorces. I still can’t bake cookies without listening to that CD, if only in my head. The music, to me, is sweet and melancholy at the same time.
Thanks, YB and QM, for re-awakening my inner writer and for encouraging me and so many other artists to listen to our muses.
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bloomgal, thanks for your wonderful comment about the Muse. And your support of red Ravine. It was a delight having you as one of our Guests this year. And your comments often make me smile and lighten my day.
You inspired me to look up more on Jean Shepherd (the narrator and adult voice of Ralph Parker in A Christmas Story) and you’d be delighted to know there is a whole website out there dedicated to him:
A Salute To Jean Shepherd at flicklives.com (LINK)
The site says he did nightly radio shows, 6 days a week, and did about 5 to 10 hours of prep per show. He also wrote 6 books and tons of magazine articles. They compare him to a sort of Mark Twain of his time. I didn’t know all that about him. Thanks for steering me that direction. It sounds like he’s a real pick-me-up for the people in your office!
I like your baking story to the Charlie Brown Christmas music. It sounds like the music was healing for you at a particularly hard time. For me, too, the music is sweet and melancholy at the same time. I never get tired of Vince Guaraldi’s music. It was genius to have him do the score.
Happy Holidays!
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Okay, I’m back to December snowflakes! I just want to say, I went out and spent two hours shoveling the whole driveway, knocking the icicles off the roof, and clearing a path around the gutters so the water can flow freely. (I pulled a huge gutter shaped log of ice out of each one!)
Now I’ve gotten out the heating pad, cranked it up to 5, and am sitting on the couch. I can barely move! I asked Liz to bring us home some take out. Hopefully, I can make it up for work tomorrow. The good news is that Liz can now get up the driveway after work.
I guess that’s the downside of December snowflakes – if you don’t have a snow blower, you have to shovel them! 8)
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Okay, I’m back to December snowflakes! I just want to say, I went out and spent two hours shoveling the whole driveway, knocking the icicles off the roof, and clearing a path around the gutters so the water can flow freely. (I pulled a huge gutter shaped log of ice out of each one!)
Now I’ve gotten out the heating pad, cranked it up to 5, and am sitting on the couch. I can barely move! I asked Liz to bring us home some take out. Hopefully, I can make it up for work tomorrow. The good news is that Liz can now get up the driveway after work.
I guess that’s the downside of December snowflakes – if you don’t have a snow blower, you have to shovel them!
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Snow shoveling will cause injury to back if you shovel improperly. You should spend a little money and get a snow blower or thrower to relieve yopurself and your back. Snow falls and snow shoveling will be never ending so you’ll never shovel them all away so use your time wisely and enjoy life.
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snowguy, the freshly fallen snow this morning reminded me that I wanted to come back and comment on your comment! We only got about 3 inches last night, so the shoveling today won’t be too bad. But I did want to say that I’ve been thinking seriously about a snow blower.
Unlike Wisconsin (with their 81 inches), we had extreme cold, but very little snow this year. We are behind schedule so the shoveling has not been as bad as other years. When I did this post in December, I thought we might be buried by March!
If we had a place to store a snow blower, I’d probably buy one in a minute for next winter. It’s true, I don’t want to be doing the hardcore shoveling for the rest of my life. It’s just too hard on the body!
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