Thank you Peggy

[Guest guest]

Peggy,

 

Congratulations on the Holiday Spirit!!

 

And thank you for keeping such a great watch over the list.

I love the way you keep the list on track!

 

Have a great Holiday and enjoy all of the food!

 

In gratitude,

 

John Van Rees

http://www.exquisitecrystals.com

 

At 12:53 PM 12/19/2006, you wrote:

 

>I wish and hope that you are all having a great holiday season filled

>with joy and harmony and that life just gets better all the time for all

>of you.

>The Year here in the Northern Half of the planet is winding down . Even

>here in the Los Angeles area the weather has turned distinctly cold and

>it feels like Winter . O.K .the mandarin oranges are getting ripe and

>the Camellias are blooming so it may not seem like winter here to most

>folks who live outside of the original La La Land but Winter is

>relative. It is up to 56 degrees this morning but seems very coold

>though when I lived in San Francisco 56 was about when we would go

>outside with out our coats. Anyway it is a good time to hunker inside

>and reflect and plan and dream. I have not been making resolutions and

>formal fixed plans because between time speeding up and various

>unexpected events the last few years my ability to complete projects

>and follow schedules has been nullified . The Gemininess of having too

>much on the plate and being somewhat easily diverted is also a factor

>of course. I do expect to do better from now on.

>

>Being an extremely eclectic family we have a vast number of holidays and

>festivities we could celebrate, so rather than singling out a specific

>cause of celebration pretty much the whole period from Halloween

>through New Years Day is the Holiday season . This is the first

>time in about six or seven years that we are actually doing much of

>anything because of various events with jobs , deaths, illness,

>accidents and surgeries etc.had consumed the season instead . This

>however is and has been a year of conclusions and renewal and in

>appreciation we are celebrating a bit . We celebrate More about our

>victories and improvements , health and life and the cycle of life

>seasons and family communication & healing rather than about calendar

>holidays and religious markers. Gifts and shopping have never been a

>big part of our holidays anyway Some years because of being unfunded

>but also because only one person in this family likes to shop and we

>are bizarrely skittish in crowds me and the girls being sensitive to

>energies and my spouse being a ( now Retired ) Police security

>specialist who tends to switch into cop/bodyguard mode in crowds. This

>year though, the youngest girl(18) manifested her full on Virgo mode

>she has learned to alleviate and prevent pain is in love /engaged

>so she wants the whole ball of Wax .We have gotten a slim unlit

>artificial tree a real wreath from Trader Joes and a goose. ( and

>ham,ducks, Rib roast, and smoked salmon) I got presents this year !

>a small freezer , a Crockpot and a food saver allowing me to indulge

>my foodie psychosis after a long break. We got a usable range at last

>in September after the door front snapped off the old one. Nicole

>has replaced my ornament collection which she had smashed during

>her child hood . My oldest daughter Jana, (thirty one) has returned to

>college and is doing well . Mara at 20 has been having success

>improving her reading and speech , she is finishing her third Beladi

>set (belly dance bra and hip belt) which her Costume Beading teacher

>Doyne Allen, says is the most beautiful thing he has ever seen in his

>life!! and someone anonymously gave me an Amazon gift certificate so

>I'll may be able to get a book or two this year . Well I had not

>intended to write the dreaded Holiday letter but that does seem to be

>what this is becoming . I did just get a solstice gift of a lovely

>rainbow moonstone pendant, the sweetest tiny Malachite egg and a

>larger Tigers Eye egg and a marble heart . A friend dropped by with a

>rock she had picked up in her travels and was initially quite shocked

>when I told her that it was a piece of schist, but we did get that

>straightened out quickly. I really want to thank everyone for sharing

>their knowledge and intuitions and experiences about stones and

>crystals and making this list a friendly and helpful place for everyone .

>

>Peggy Jentoft

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