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Advent 2022, Day 24
“Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed any more.”
–Terry Pratchett

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2022-12-24

Advent 2022, Day 17
“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”
- Graham Greene

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2022-12-17

Advent 2022, Day 15

“Where art thou, Mother Christmas?
I only wish I knew
Why Father should get all the praise
And no-one mentions you”
– Roald Dahl

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2022-12-15

Advent 2022, Day 11
“The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!”
– J. R. R. Tolkien

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2022-12-11

Advent 2022, Day 10

Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!

I have a Bird in spring
Which for myself doth sing—
The spring decoys.
And as the summer nears—
And as the Rose appears,
Robin is gone.
–Emily Dickinson

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2022-12-10

Advent 2022, Day 8
“If you’re worried and you can’t sleep, count your blessings instead of sheep.”
-Irving Berlin

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2022-12-08

Advent 2022, Day 7 “It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” 
― Dylan Thomas

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2022-12-07

Advent 2022,  Day 3
"T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
– Clement Clarke Moore

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2022-12-03