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TO OUR TMV READERS AND COMMENTERS: Blessed Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Holy Solstice, Bright Kwanzaa, y Feliz Navidad…and… How Totally Cool It Is To Be A Child in Winter….

Posted by DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, Deputy Managing Editor, Columnist in Health.
Dec 24th, 2008 |

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These photo montages are to wish all OUR TMV READERS and COMMENTERS the warmest of the holiday season. We treasure you. As we say ‘back to home’: You’re good people.

And, for all persons, no matter their knowings and beliefs… May every soul in some way be made happy everywhere in this ever fissioning, ever challenging, ever horrible, ever deeply humane world.

Picasso said, it took him decades to figure out the answer to the key to wild art: Be/see as a child.

Therefore, I personally wish you snow enough to lie on the ground and flail around, without or without the assistance of spirits, and make a snow angel.

And if you live in an area where there’s not enough snow to make an angel, then I just will hope you have many opportunities to act as an angel in ways meaningful to you…

You haven’t quite lived til you’ve been trying to walk about in knee high snow… it’s a little like trying to run underwater

Remember how you’d drag the sled up the hill over and over like some single-minded Volga boatman, and the snow would clot up around your leggings till you looked like you were covered with ‘klingon’ snow balls?

And this… I think I’ll just pull this one twig just to see what happens….

And the quintessential winter craft that every brother, sister, mother, father, aunt, uncle, neighbor,friend, grandpa, grandma should teach every little child: in the spirit of the angels…

And last but not least, Treasured-First-Animal attempts angel craft too…

And now to bless you with my dyslexic best: Dog bless… I mean, God bless us all

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river

. . . And Happy Holidays to you dear Dr. E. . . Be Blessed to the far corners of the world. . . this Season. . . and the year to come. . .

Dr. E. do you know what Snow Angels eat for breakfast?. . .

Frosty Flakes. . .

kritt11

Happy holidays!

- and man, that snow looks like fun! (Uh unless it comes with a power outage that is!)

Jim_Satterfield

Ah, what I remember of "snowcraft" is a little different. Our backyard had a small "hill", more of a drop off that was fairly lengthy before evening out. When we would get good snowfalls that part of our yard would develop drifts that made it to where the higher part of the yard seemed to extend further than normal but it was just very deep snow. I would actually dig tunnels through this snow if it packed enough to allow it.

archangel

oh Jim, that is SO cool! I wish we could do all these things again, right now. I'll bring the hot cocoa. river and krit and the rest of the guys could bring those teeny marshmallows I've seen people use in hot chocolate. I dont know, maybe we'd have to have hot campbell's tomato soup first. (a little yick...lol). And then take half an hour to get into all the snow suit stuff and boots and mittens and face scarf and hats and such. great memory Jim

dr.e

DLS

You made me miss my goddaughters again. (I would take them up to Lake Gregory and Big Bear at Christmastime for snow fun.) Come to think of it, I miss the others in my life from So-Cal days there, and So-Cal...

archangel

aw DLS, I hope you had a chance to tell your goddaughters just that today!! I so remember, dont you, though I grew up in one of the premiere, 'children should be not seen and not heard' families, that any even small attention a child receives from a grown up with love, is just so very memorable? I hope y ou will call them up today --or if your're going to see them....and tell each other the stories of your times on Big Bear and Lake G... and more

dr.e

Jim_Satterfield

Yeah, the "recovery" from playing in the snow and cold was pretty good too.

Jillmz

What fantastic photos! I might have to scan the ones from when I had two of my three kids and the snow was several feet high and it was averaging 20 below. :)

Ditto the occasions and wishes to all.

archangel

bring them on Jillzie

best of the lovelight to you also,

dr.e

kritt11

Dr. E.

I used to live in Long Island, NY as a child and one winter I had to be carried out of our neighborhood on someone's shoulders. We stayed with relatives for a couple of weeks, I missed school and had a blast. I also remember other storms when the entire neighborhood would come out for a snowball fight.

When I lived in Alabama, the streets iced up one year for a week and we missed school and sledded down them- Yes it was probably idiotic- but so much fun. Then we went inside for cocoa and cookies.

I feel sorry for Floridians who will never experience the joys of winter weather. :-(

river

Dr. E. . .sounds like you have even more snow that when you posted this. . .good luck keeping warm. . .Some of my favorite memories where when blizzards would roll in to the Texas panhandle and the drifts would be so big the cattle would walk over the fences. . . we would go out on horseback sorting the wandering cattle from the ranches . . .We did not have good mountains, not even hills, so when it snowed we had a old Coke a Cola sign that we flipped and rigged up with a rope and a horse. . .

archangel

I love it when you guys tell snippets of your own stories in life. You are so cool. I was just writing to tyrone today (T-Steels coblogger here at tmv) about how each person's background is so different, and how valuable it is when people tell sometimes about the 'roots of the stories behind' their current thinking. Humbly, I'd just offer to you all that here at Tmv is one small place where all the creatures come down to the same river to drink. And most of the time everyone leaves intact, often enough, nourished a bit. Good.

dr.e

Jim_Satterfield

dr. e, I forgot to tell you how much I loved the photos. While I love kids I have to admit that the one of the dog is my favorite.

archangel

dear Jim, thanks for the postscript, and I'm with you, ...partial to our furry relatives. OUt here where I live in the ROckies, when it snows, all the dogs jump and jump up in the air trying to snag those big flakes. It's very funny and dear. THe only other people you see doing that are kids who run around with their mouths open to try to catch the snowflakes as they fall. And um, mutter mumble, mumble... me. lol

dr.e

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