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Joan Dark's avatar

Do you know you are Loved?

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Celia Farber's avatar

Um..no. 🤣

You all help me along the way, every day, but "loved" feels truly uncomfortable, still.

I will keep at it. And thank you for your kindness.

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Kilquor's avatar

Being loved is not all its cracked up to be .

Jonn Donne simply could not stand his first wife's compliances .

He only became a great phrase-ist ,orator , when confronted with a tautology ,from whence he went successfully ballistic ,very many movers and shakers relied on his turn of phrase ,whether from pulpit or pen .

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Joan Dark's avatar

This is beyond sad. This is tragic. I'll send you an ethereal Hug.

Love is Everywhere and No where. Define Love and you will find it. Caveat, you MAY have to redefine Love as you understand it. God's Blessings your Way!

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Kilquor's avatar

John Donne didnt find it sad ,his late mental genius needed a boost by despising vaccuuous complicity .

I gather his later interactions were the reverse of TS Elliots - whose 'Wasteland ' definately includes whole lines,stanzas directly quoted from his first wife ,who he eventually locked up .

Some Nobel Prize .

TSE's second wife made him so happy he didnt create a thing for 30 subsequent years .

I think TSE is what's wrong with anglospheric literature today .

Why WOULD he ever greet ( 1st time after years ) CSLewis- with ''you look SO much OLDER than your photographs ''

All is not well - in Gotham City - with the bankclerk's green eyeshadow .

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Joan Dark's avatar

Take off your shoes. Walk outside. Keep walking to nearest Forest or Garden Path. Sit on the ground. Wait. Watch. Listen.

If the animals, birds or bees don't hover or approach you....Go Home. Come back with food and feel the LOVE.

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Kilquor's avatar

Ah ,you know how many zvettizangers greet the recumbent as it passes ,now ?

I always insist they dont stop after one phrase .They have started repeating their lightbreaking songs .S single one was very rare , a decade ago ,now there are 20 - well spaced out .

Also wild bumblebees actually hover in ballet to the termite hollowed piece of eucalyptus ,14 or so - sometimes . Whites call it didgerdoo .

Are you saying that when I play ,after 4 months careful research - due to multi pronged stallion attacks in wild -100metres DOWNWIND, on an untuned Yakutian Khomus - that I should somehow 'make america great again' by this process ?

'Molim tje nje sjeri'

I'm hearing mossad .

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Dale Peterson's avatar

Beautiful! This is one of my favorite festivals of the season! Thank you so much, as always, for posting about this.

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Quiltlady's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing this. I played that part at my church when I was 14 years old. My Dad was terrified that my hair was going to catch on fire from all the candles. It went very smoothly w/o any mishaps.

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blablavatskaya's avatar

curious about origin -- this traditional Italian air was transcribed as a baccarole in 1848 by a Frenchie and given lyrics by an Italian.

travel to the Bay of Naples, the Santa Lucia district, where a star shines on the lagoon, the breeze is just right, and the waves are suave.

1:30 Milano Choir -- 12:00 Elvis Presley doing a nice job in Viva Las Vegas -- great footage of bobbing barks.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I651WE5XtvM&list=RDI651WE5XtvM&start_radio=1&pp=oAcB

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Kilquor's avatar

Enrico Kossovic a linguistic genius ,while the serbian letters were still being formed - drawing democracy down from old high slavic ?

ITA Lyrics from a serb from Kosovo?

Around the time Bishop (King , MNE) Njegosh was writing Ray of the Microcosm ,which Goethe specifically spent 2 years mastering serbian to ' hear the colours .'

Sweden was then well beyond an estab;ished ,significant mariner trading nation - one only has to hear of giant rafts floated beteween Amsterdam to Gothenberg of veritible felled forests ,strapped together- till mid 20th century ,even .(Dutch sources)

The high Swedish version ,of what must have been a drinking song ,across many shores ,builds on a 'Geuzenlied ' dutch maritime tradition ,wherein all the best tunes found in the Spanish Netherlands (invaders' ) taverns were promptly ,(monty python like) - put to accompany metrical psalms .

But THAT dates 300 years ,or more ,pior .

I have THOSE collections ,by Valerius ,a lawyer - who helped Jacob Cats in 'Den Spiegel van den oude en nieuwe tijd ' - basically 'how to be a foreigner in NL - in 4 languages !

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Joan Dark's avatar

Celia, I ascribe to the belief system of giving from one's heart without expectation of ANYTHING in return is good for the soul. But personally,...I find the more that I give, the better I feel. And you, Dear, give from the Heart every day!

Perhaps the question I should have posit was...Do you know your followers KNOW how much you give?

You are NOT for the unsophisticated. You are deep, caring, work hard to put out quality and thought provoking info and so much more. I can't imagine how you do all you do and manage make me feel better that Celia lives. Really. God Bless and Merry Christmas!

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Shona Duncan's avatar

How about a young Irish choir singing "Hallelujah"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a220Kxk074k&list=RDa220Kxk074k&start_radio=1

I love this

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Kilquor's avatar

The nasal frontal lobe spaces of her mask register is Alaskan ,almost Inuit .But Irish it is not .I think

I need to get some dosh your way - for the edelweiss tincture (5 flowers in water simmered 2hrs slowly is also useful ) - tell me how .otherwise customs will hammer me ,in NL ,if sent commercially .

After C Kirk's embalmed silence proving that meme stealing is being fobbed off as art -

https://unherd.com/2025/12/the-enshittification-of-christmas/?set_edition=en&tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3

-https://uomod.com/enshittification-how-big-tech-broke-the-internet-and-why-cory-doctorow-says-its-no-accident/

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Shona Duncan's avatar

I'm not doing Christmas, but I will share meme's and songs. Once again I have nobody to spend it with so I will probably be busy trying to get my Substack finished, or to a stage. At the moment I am making the best of only being able to download 10 Rumble videos per day and upload them to Substack. I'm trying to future-proof it for the inevitable day I am unable to access it any more.

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Shona Duncan's avatar

you are very kind to suggest the tincture and offer me money for it but I'm on welfare and I would have to report any financial gift. Thanks anyway though.

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Steve Nieman's avatar

It's your life we're interested in Celia...(without being absurdly nosey.)

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Celia Farber's avatar

It's…going to start getting written. Just clearing space and time around myself first. Thank you Steve.

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Ross S's avatar

I remember St. Lucia celebrations in my Evangelical Covenant Church days from my youth in Saskatchewan Canada. My Dad’s family are pure Swedish background. I worked at a small Bible College from the Swedish denomination and this was a Christmas tradition every year with the students. Good memories.

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Katarina's avatar

As a Swede I agree completely! Tack Celia och God Jul❣️

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Alfhild ANDA's avatar

Exquisitely goose pimply!

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Ge's avatar

My family enjoys this from you every year.

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Jamia Smith's avatar

Absolutely Beautiful….thank you

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tRuth's avatar

Oh I've laughed at my own take on this; reading Advent 14, regarding cult women wearing white, then playing this with all these beautiful white clad ladies with candelabras balanced as a crown, parading towards and bowing before the alter. I'm still laughing, even after this diatribe!

A joyous, peaceful and good season to all.

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