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  • Six Things to Include in Your Child's Day:

    • meaningful work
    • imaginative play
    • good books
    • beauty (art, music, nature)
    • ideas to ponder and discuss
    • prayer

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My Bonny Clan

  • Jane, 13 yrs old
    Rose, 10 yrs
    Beanie, 7 yrs
    Wonderboy, 4 yrs
    Rilla, 2 yrs
    baby eagerly expected in January

    and Scott, the love of my life

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    • FERN HILL

      by Dylan Thomas


      Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs

      About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,

      The night above the dingle starry,

      Time let me hail and climb

      Golden in the heydays of his eyes,

      And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns

      And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves

      Trail with daisies and barley

      Down the rivers of the windfall light.



      And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns

      About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,

      In the sun that is young once only,

      Time let me play and be

      Golden in the mercy of his means,

      And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves

      Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,

      And the sabbath rang slowly

      In the pebbles of the holy streams.



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      THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
      by William Butler Yeats

      I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
      And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
      Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
      And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

      And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
      Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
      There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
      And evening full of the linnet's wings.

      I will arise and go now, for always night and day
      I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
      While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
      I hear it in the deep heart's core.



    Rings & Things

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    December 25, 2007

    Merry Christmas!

    I wrote a post earlier in the week, but it got zapped. Short version: Jane's pinky fracture landed her a cast up to the elbow (pleasingly purple), and poor Wonderboy's mouth continues to provide suspense. He doesn't seem bothered by the injury, beyond needing me to cut up his sandwich into bites since his biting teeth are AWOL, but Scott and I are holding our breaths through the holiday and hoping we won't have to make an ER run later today. (Updated at dinnertime: so far, so good. Hurrah!) I am afraid there may be an infection brewing up there. No fever, so we're holding steady for now.

    But enough of that. We had a wonderful day yesterday—a Christmas Eve drive to the mountains for apple pie—and we've had a lovely Christmas morning. It's time to go put on our holiday finery for Mass, but before I go, I wanted to write a quick note to wish all of you dear Bonny Glen readers and your families a day full of joy. God bless you, every one!

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    Detail from Nativity (Holy Night), Correggio, 1528-30. Web Gallery of Art.

    Our 2005 Christmas video.

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    I'm sorry to hear about the cast and the possible infection :-( Does Jane at least feel she will be an interesting talking point? I'm glad Wonderboy isn't too troubled by his injury, and that, by the time you read this, the infection fears proved groundless.

    I hope your Christmas Day was wonderful.

    Merry, Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas! Praying you don't have another ER trip ahead of you. Those are awful!

    And a Merry Christmas to you and yours too! Here's hoping it's uneventful, in a good way...

    I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

    Merry Christmas Lissa and family!!
    Hoping Wonderboy feels better soon

    Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas to you all from MN!

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