This was ACTUALLY supposed to be posted LAST week, as it was Christmas Eve, but, hey, you get to things when you get to them, right? Enjoy!
Merry Holidays- whichever one you happen to be celebrating, I’m not blogging on that issue again. The point is simply that I wish you all well, safe and sound with your loved ones happy and near you.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
This week’s song is from my favorite Christmas special growing up. Everyone has their handful of favorite childhood memories. For individuals of a certain couple of generations amongst those celebrating Christmas one of those memories may very well include a beloved Christmas special on television: Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Charlie Brown, or The Little Drummer Boy. For me, I have always loved The Year Without a Santa Claus. Looking back, it makes sense. The special is a precursor to the person I would later grow up to be: not terribly religious, sentimental and with a huge sense of imagination and whimsy. I mean, come on, Mrs. Claus taking charge? Two elves named Jingle and Jangle? Mother Nature? Love this one.
It’s full of really fun music, the Miser Brothers, “I’m Mr. White Christmas, I’m Mr. Snow…” Google it if you don’t know the song- awesome.
For your listening pleasure, one of my personal favorites…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlo1kldHjF8
As the song says, if you are too old for Santa Claus then you’re too old for all the things that make life worthwhile.
- Santa: I believe in Santa Claus
- Like I believe in love
- I believe in Santa Claus
- And everything he does
- There’s no question in my mind
- That he does exist
- Just like love I know he’s there
- Waiting to be missed
- Mr. Thistlewhite: I believe in Santa Claus
- But there was a time
- I thought I had grown to old
- For such a childish rhyme
- He became a dream to me
- ‘Til one Christmas night
- Someone stood beside my bed
- With a beard of white
- “So you’re too old for Santa Claus”?
- He said with a smile
- “Then you’re too old for all the things
- That make a life worth while
- For what is happiness but dreams
- And do they all come true
- Look at me and tell me, son
- What is real to you?”
- Both: Just believe in Santa Claus
- Like you believe in love
- Just believe in Santa Claus
- And everything he does
- Wipe that question from your mind
- Yes, he does exist!
- Just like love you knows he’s there
- Waiting to be missed
- Just like love I know he’s there
- Waiting to be missed
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Mother Nature and her two rascally sons: Snow Miser and Heat Miser, 1974