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Tiny Miracles of Beauty

It snowed this morning. The central coast of California was touched, however lightly and fleetingly by snow crystals. You had to be in the hills to notice, and the “flurries” are long over, but all things aligned in the dark of the night to bring us a little snowstorm. Growing up in the Rockies, snow [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

I’m not sure what’s going on here but I like the sentiment. … Thanksgiving Hymn Songbook … Apparently Thanksgiving Balls were quite the thing.

In Celebration of Day of the Dead

“Don’t just cry mournfully over the individuals, dreams and influences that have helped make you what you are. Dance for them; sing for them; honor them; leap into the air and kiss the sky for them.” –Day of the Dead, San Francisco Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my [...]

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Halloween

1. Halloween has it’s origins in the Celtic festival of Samhain, which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end.” The festival celebrates the end of the lighter half of the year and beginning of the darker half and is sometimes regarded as the Celtic New Year. 2. The ancient Celts believed that [...]

Vintage Halloween Cards

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