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Monday, December 14, 2015
Sunday, December 13, 2015
White Christmas
Celtic
Woman - White Christmas (w/ Lyrics)
"White
Christmas" 1954 Bing Crosby & Danny Kaye
Bing
Crosby & Frank Sinatra - White Christmas
Michael
Bublé | White Christmas
White Christmas (film)
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White Christmas
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Frank Bracht
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October 14, 1954
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United States
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English
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White
Christmas is a 1954
American musical romantic comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney,
and Vera-Ellen, loosely based on the 1942 film Holiday Inn.[3] Filmed inVistaVision and Technicolor,
it features the songs of Irving Berlin,
including a new version of the title song, "White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in
the earlier film.
Produced and
distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is notable for
being the first to be released in VistaVision,
a widescreen process developed by Paramount that entailed using twice the
surface area of standard 35mm film; this large-area negative was used to yield
finer-grained standard-sized 35mm prints.
Keeping Christmas
Reflection: Are You Willing to Keep Christmas?
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The merry season comes and goes, and once the
decorations are packed up, presents are opened and the celebrations draw to a
close, so does the Christmas spirit, and all the love, thoughtfulness, and
unity that it brings. But what is it that discourages us from celebrating
this joyous feast all year round? This year, with all my kind greetings and
wishes, I would like to send you a reminder about something that is better
than the observance of Christmas day, and that is - keeping
Christmas.
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Are you willing…
...to forget what you have done for
other people,
and to remember what other people have done for you?
...to ignore what the world owes
you,
and to think what you owe the world?
...to put your rights in the
background,
and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground? |
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Are you willing...
...to see that men and women are
just as real as you are,
and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy?
...to own up to the fact that
probably the only good reason
for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life?
...to close your book of
complaints against the management of the universe, and look around you
for a place where
you can sow a few seeds of happiness? |
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Are you willing to do these things
even for a day?
Then you can keep Christmas.
Are you willing to stoop down and
consider
the needs and desires of little children?
And to remember the weakness and
loneliness of people growing old?
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Are you willing...
...to stop asking how much your
friends love you,
and ask yourself whether you love them enough?
...to bear in mind the things that
other people have to bear in their hearts to try to understand what
those who live in the same home with you really want, without waiting
for them to tell you? |
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Are you willing...
...to trim your lamp so that it
will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front
so that your shadow will fall behind you?
...to make a grave for your ugly
thoughts, and a garden with an open gate for
your kind feelings ?
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Are you willing...
...to believe that love is the
strongest thing in the world? Stronger than hate, stronger than evil,
stronger than death?
And that the blessed life which
began in Bethlehem
1,900 years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love?
Are you willing to do these things,
even for a day?
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Then you can keep Christmas.
And if you can keep it for a day,
why not always?
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Share this reflection with
your loved ones to wish them a happy Christmas, this year, and
every day...
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Words by Henry Van Dyke
VISHING VELL???
email from JKS Weerasekera
An Arab had spent many days crossing the desert.
It got so bad that
even his camel died of thirst.
He crawled through the sands, certain that he was breathing his last
breath, when he saw half buried in the sand a Manischewitz wine bottle.
He hoped there may be a drop or two of fluid left in the bottle, so he
unscrewed the top, and out popped a genie!
This was no ordinary Genie. This genie appeared to be a (Jewish) Chasidic
Rabbi, complete with black alpaca coat, black hat,
side curls.
'Vell kid,' said the Chassidic Rabbi genie, 'you know how it is. You got t’ree vishes.'
Says the Arab. 'I'm not going to trust a
Jewish genie!'
'Vott you got to lose, you're a goner anyvay!'
The Arab thought about this for a minute, and decided to take on the genie.
He crawled through the sands, certain that he was breathing his last
breath, when he saw half buried in the sand a Manischewitz wine bottle.
He hoped there may be a drop or two of fluid left in the bottle, so he
unscrewed the top, and out popped a genie!
This was no ordinary Genie. This genie appeared to be a (Jewish) Chasidic
Rabbi, complete with black alpaca coat, black hat,
side curls.
'Vell kid,' said the Chassidic Rabbi genie, 'you know how it is. You got t’ree vishes.'
Says the Arab. 'I'm not going to trust a
Jewish genie!'
'Vott you got to lose, you're a goner anyvay!'
The Arab thought about this for a minute, and decided to take on the genie.
'Okay, I wish I were in
a lush oasis, with plentiful food and
drink.'
‘P O O F!
The Arab found himself in the most beautiful oasis he had ever
seen surrounded with jugs of wine and platters of delicacies.
'Okee-dokee kiddo, vat's your second vish?' asked the genie.
'My second wish is that I were rich beyond my wildest dreams.'
drink.'
‘P O O F!
The Arab found himself in the most beautiful oasis he had ever
seen surrounded with jugs of wine and platters of delicacies.
'Okee-dokee kiddo, vat's your second vish?' asked the genie.
'My second wish is that I were rich beyond my wildest dreams.'
P O O F !!
And the Arab found himself surrounded by treasure chests filled with
gold coins and precious gems.
'Okay kid, you got just vone more vish. Make it a good
vone!'
After thinking for a few minutes, the Arab says, 'I wish
beautiful women will always need and want me!'
P O O F!!!
He was turned into a tampon.
THE MORAL:
If you're an Arab doing business with a Jew, there's
going to be a string attached!
If you're an Arab doing business with a Jew, there's
going to be a string attached!
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