Veronica's #WritersDiary: MERRY CHRISTMAS!

"So, every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you."

Helen Steiner Rice

Merry Christmas! I wanted to take this beautiful morning to wish you and yours a lovely day of Peace, Joy, and Goodwill. It's my favorite day of the year--let's celebrate the day's festivities with a beloved poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (with lovely pics from the Twilight Holiday Tour at Hearst Castle)... 🎀🎄

CHRISTMAS BELLS

I heard the bells on Christmas Day

Their old, familiar carols play,  

  And wild and sweet

    The words repeat

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,

The belfries of all Christendom

    Had rolled along

    The unbroken song

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Till ringing, singing on its way,

The world revolved from night to day, 

A voice, a chime,   

 A chant sublime

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Then from each black,

accursed mouth

The cannon thundered in the South,

 And with the sound

 The carols drowned

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

It was as if an earthquake rent

The hearth-stones of a continent,

 And made forlorn

 The households born

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;

"There is no peace on earth," I said;  

For hate is strong,   

 And mocks the song

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:

God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;   

The Wrong shall fail,  

 The Right prevail,

With peace on earth, good-will to men.

A blessed day to you and yours, filled with good cheer! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Crowns and Kisses,

Veronica

P.S. I'll be back in the New Year---2025, here we come! Gemma and Rikkhe approve 🎀👑