Sunday, December 24, 2017

Celebrating the "Twelve Days of Christmas"

Rosemary and I are so blessed with family and friends I have decided to attempt a “Poor Man’s” celebration of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” by sending twelve photos from my computer’s collection of over ten thousand: 

On the First Day of Christmas:
"Go tell it on the mountain Jesus Christ is born!"

On the Second Day of Christmas:
(My 2008 photo from the Dayton Towers:)
"For God so loved the world"


On the Third Day of Christmas:
(My neighbor, Sister Angela Ann, sent this photo of the “Nativity Scene” 
from her  Christmas Day in Port of Spain, Trinidad 2017.
“O night divine; O night when Christ was born”

On the Fourth Day of Christmas:
 
(I used this photo of my Granddaughter and Great Granddaughter
taken at the Schuster Center for our Christmas card in 2006.)
 
“May God Bless the Child”



On the Fifth Day of Christmas:
(This downtown Dayton photo depicts Jazz Advocate as business of the
week at Boston’s Bistro during the 2002 Christmas season.)
“He will bring us goodness and light.”

On the Sixth Day of Christmas:
(A photo of the Dayton Cleveland School Band taken during the 2006
Christmas season at the downtown RTA Center.)
 “Do You Hear What I Hear?”



On the Seventh Day of Christmas:
(This 2011 photo of 45 rpm records making a peace symbol was taken at
the BRD House depicts peace through music.)
”Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.”

On the Eight Day of Christmas:
(This is a 2015 graphic from my computer, that I updated and used again
for this New Year's Day.)
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men.”




On the Ninth Day of Christmas:
(Listening to my little jazzy snowman quartet that was given to my by
my friend Gayla Watson because she knew I like Jazz)
“Joy to the world! The Lord is come”








On the Tenth Day of Christmas:
(Music is the only thing powerful enough to push aside the curtain of time. When it does, everything becomes clear, perfect, reconciled, and just, even if only for the moments when we rise with it)
“Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee”








On the Eleventh Day of Christmas:
(My favorite Christmas blessings; the love of family and friends)
“O come, all ye faithful Joyful and triumphant”


















On the Twelfth Day of Christmas:
(Memories from Christmas past with harpist Stephanie Llacuna at
Hope Lutheran Church) ”Away in a manger. no crib for His bed”