Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best for the coming year.
Leslie
1988 Vancouver
2009 Victoria/Seattle/Almost Red Rocks/Las Vegas/San Jose.
2010 Sligo x 2/Victoria/Vancouver/Portland/Las Vegas x 2.
2012 Austin x 2/Seattle/Vancouver/Montreal x 2.
2013 Oakland x 2/New York City x 2/Winnipeg...
Thanks Jarkko and Eija for your welcomed season’s greetings and annual beautiful ice crystal photo!
I thought seeing as winter is coming for most of you I would like to extend some warmth with an Australian summer beach theme
Also knowing that we are an international community who speak many languages I wanted to add our own “Christmas forum family tree”.
A quote for Christmas: Christmas gift suggestions -
To your enemy, forgiveness
To an opponent, tolerance
To a friend, your heart
To a customer, service
To all, charity
To every child, a good example
To yourself, respect
~Oren Arnold
A quote for New Year: For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and good fortune to all!
It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to B4real ~ me Attitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy ~ me ...... The magic of art is the truth of its lies ~ me ...... Only left-handers are in their right mind!
Thank you for the beauty of your vision, Eija and Jarkko.
Each Christmas will bring new delights for you as grandparents; and still you bring us love, beauty, and delights of our own.
Thank you for everything... and may this holiday season be your most beautiful yet.
Much love and deep friendship,
Elizabeth / Lizzie
[B4real ~ I'm borrowing all three of your entries for FB (the two quotes, credited to you, of course, and the link to Leonard and Jennifer).]
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." ~ Oscar Wilde
Hanukkah (Hebrew: חֲנֻכָּה, usually spelled חנוכה pronounced [χanuˈka] in Modern Hebrew, also romanized as Chanukah or Chanuka), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.
'And Jesus said to His disciples, "Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."'
To all who hunger, may you find relief, may you find peace at this time,
Adam
'In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer' - Albert Camus
Thank you for these explanations, Adam. I can never remember which is considered the correct spelling of Hanukkah, and I prefer to use the authentic/original.
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." ~ Oscar Wilde
I wish all the Forum Members a "Very Happy and safe Holiday Season and a Very Happy New Year". Maybe we will be blessed with another Tour this coming year.
Thank you to the staff of the Forum for all the hard work you have done.
Happy season greetings to everyone and hope that 2015 will be full of Leonard concerts
O2, 17th July and 13th November 2008, Weybridge 11th July 2009, Barecelona 21 September 2009, Lille 25 September 2010, Las Vegas 10th and 11th December 2010, Wembley 9th September 2012, Paris 29th September 2012, O2 London 21st June, 15th September 2013.