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Happy New Year, My Family Ginny and I had a wonderful New Year weekend. On Saturday, I took Ginny to the play I got her tickets for her as a Christmas gift. She loved it. After the play, we took the subway to Rockefeller Center and saw the lighted tree for the very first time. For New Year's Eve, we went to a good friend of ours in Brooklyn. She is so funny. I laughed so hard, my jaws hurt - and that was at 4:30 AM. This explains why my new story is so late. I wish you all a Happy New Year. Ginny has been posting pictures she created on her web site. Check them out at www.ginginsgoodies.etsy.com. Before the story, here's a wonderful link my friend Alice sent me. http://www.christmaswishmovie.com/ Enjoy! I am going to give you one of the comments on my last story before my new story tonight. Last weekend I re-posted a story about my old buddy, Cody-Joe. He was my canine buddy from years ago. Cody's mom mailed me the following: Cody hasn't changed is right! He is still loveable, but a pain in the butt sometimes! He sure loves Christmas, and snooped in the closet and every bag looking for his gifts. He had a sad look on his face when he couldn't smell anything for himself and I stuffed his stocking, but didn't dare put it under the tree until the morning for he is such a nose bag. Christmas night before we went to bed he went over and checked all his gifts to see that they were all there and I figured there would have been hell to pay in the morning if something was missing! He has SUCH character. Loved you as an elf, by the way! Hope you and Ginny had a Merry Christmas and we hope you have a Happy New Year. Liz Now for today's story: Nothing is Missing New Year's Day is in the past. The Christmas tree stands in the corner. Sunlight streams in the window and reflects off the ornaments. I admire my tree again, as I have for the last few weeks. In a week or so, I'll pack the ornaments, lovingly, in their containers and relive the memory of when they first came into my possession. The tree will be dismantled, packed in its box, and everything will be put away for another year. I'll smile, because I know, like a photo album stored on a shelf to collect dust, it will be pulled out again, dusted off and, once again, bring back the past. ***************************** As a kid, I hated that time of year. For weeks, I browsed through the toys in the catalogs - I dreamed. Wrapped presents taunted me - I wished. Christmas morning came - I unwrapped. Things I dreamed of were revealed - I was happy, but it was short lived. On Christmas Day, I'd sit by the tree. Scraps of wrapping paper, missed by the broom, slid across the floor when I blew at them. I felt sad. I'd blow in the direction of the tree and watch the tinsel swing in the breeze I created. "Michael! Stop that!" Mum scolded me. "The tinsel gets tangled in the branches." "Sorry, Mum." Something was missing. After unwrapping my gifts, I felt empty. Something was missing. What was it? ***************************** I look at my tree again. Why was I sad back then? It took me more than forty years to figure it out. I missed the excitement. It's like a drug. I'm addicted to it. I love the thrill of the unknown. A torn wrapper reveals what is underneath - ruins the thrill. The pretty papers covering my past have been torn away. The future holds newly wrapped presents. I'm not sad my previous life has been unwrapped, because I know the future has gifts to be revealed. The gifts are not important. It's the memories they create, reflected from the ornaments on the tree, that count. Last year Ginny and I created memories to last like the ones that hang on my tree. Packed away, put on a shelf, and wrapped in the soft tissue of our memories, they'll be stored in the box we call memory. I'm not sad. I know I can pull those memories out anytime I want. They're here forever. A new year is here. Ginny and I have new memories to create. The old and new memories will go in the same book and hang on the same memory tree for all to read. Nothing is missing. The future will fill my tree. Nothing is missing. Michael T. Smith You can read more of my stories and sign up for my twice-weekly posts at http://archives.zinester.com/86758/ Feel free to share my stories. I only ask you to leave the link for others to join our family. If you wish to send me a comment, please email me at mtsmith@qwestonline.com. Now for some comments from my mailbox. Michael, "Elfyourself" made my weekend start with a very large smile. So, to give all my friends a smile, I elfed myself!! It will show a side of me they don't know!! I wonder if that's good or bad??? By the way, I have discontinued my newsletter, Eagle's Echo, so will not be using your articles in it. However, I'll continue to share as I have time. Happy New Year to you and Ginny--may it be the BEST one ever. In friendship, Evegene in Missouri ***************************** Mike, Your stories are dynamite. You have such a creative talent for writing and the ability to paint pictures in the reader's mind. Wow! I read the story about Cody-Joe before. Today I was emotionally moved by the story. Thank you for sharing your stories with us. God bless you, Ginny, and family. Happy New Year, Prof.Dr. Robert M. Santry, ***************************** Mike, you look splendid in those green striped tights, and man oh man, you sure can dance! Clever! Happy 2007 to you and Ginny, Sandi. ***************************** Thank you for sharing such a heart rending story. It touched my heart so much.Thank you for sharing yourself. You are a wonderful person. Happy New Year....Linda. To unsubscribe from my ezine, please go to: http://www.zinester.com/cgi/unsub.cgi?86758&0& |
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