Gifts and meaning in a Christmas letter ponder love and life
An advertising writer’s Christmas letter in the Rocky Mountain News muses on love, giving, and the three Wise Men. It contrasts material gifts with spiritual ones, noting gold, frankincense, and myrrh symbolize money, faith, and life values, while reflecting on hope, memory, and the future as gifts. The piece moves from holiday gifts to broader life lessons, urging present focus and personal virtue.
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Rocky Mountains
Reeks Mountain News
Insson
Eny
Ruth
United States
Thought for Today on Occupation and Peace by Ruskin
The excerpt argues that when men are rightly occupied amusements fade like petals from a fruitful flower. True life advances as the heart grows softer blood warms faster minds sharpen and spirit seeks living peace. Those freed from fear doubt and division become the lords of earth.
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John Ruskin
Quotes and aphorisms mingle in scattered scrapbook notes
Fragments from a 19th or early 20th century miscellany mix literary quotes, lines from poets and dramatists, proverbs, and religious reflections. The collage includes Belloc, Wordsworth, Shakespearean echoes, and aphorisms on wisdom, aging, love, faith, and freedom, all jumbled with stray misreadings and stray phrases.
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Evil van Wormer
Christwis
Amg
Home Builders
Sis
Posty
Pier
Humale
Jemimas
Jemima
Iaredien
Aunt Jerums
New York
Saratoga
Hilaire Belloc
Berture
Olka
Ayl von Jone
Philip Sriney
Thomas
Les
Christine Rossele
Pune
Mark Thain
Walt Wautman
Burnet Ave
Branc
Genesee ST
Chappelli
Yardley
Charbert
Wrisley
Roger & Gallet
Wiliams
Woodbury
Chapwells Cosmetics
Dorsay Lardley Chaibert
Colognes
Tanbarktsman
Abhstaid
California
Seouert Ani
AM and Sichel, Inc
Heavenly Comfort
Ws Buit
Burgundy
Silver
Conta
Cross
Arthur Kent
Syracuse
Chappells
Chappells Corset Shop
Rose Randell
Miss Rendell
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