Li'l Christmas Stuff

[Louetta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCNgQUVPqdk

Lyrics in case your German is a little rusty. I know mine was.

Ave Maria

Heut sind so viele ganz allein.
Es gibt auf der Welt so viele Tränen
und Nächte voller Einsamkeit.
Und jeder wünscht sich einen Traum voller Zärtlichkeit.
Und manchmal reichen ein paar Worte
um nicht mehr so allein zu sein.
Aus fremden Menschen werden Freunde
und große Sorgen werden klein.

Ave Maria.

Ave Maria, weit ist die Reise durch die Nacht.
Es gibt so viel Wege zu den Sternen
und jeder sucht eine Hand die ihn hält.
Vielleicht ist jemand so traurig wie Du
komm und geh auf ihn zu.
Verschließ heut Nacht nicht Deine Türe
und öffne heut Dein Herz ganz weit.
Und lass den andern Wärme spüren
in dieser kalten Jahreszeit.

Ave Maria

[Louetta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjawwUy8jIA

I want delts like her. A few other body parts too.

Heilige Nacht, die Engel flüstern leise,
leis' wie der Schnee, der durch die Stille fällt.
Heilige Nacht, ein Traum geht auf die Reise:
von heute an sei Frieden auf der Welt!

Von heute an sind alle Menschen Brüder,
kein Streit um Gott, kein Streit um Religion.
Lass, Heil'ge Nacht, den Traum uns alle träumen,
denn nie mehr, nie mehr soll Krieg die Antwort sein.

Heilige Nacht, die Engel singen leise,
denn überall ist Frieden eingekehrt.
Heilige Nacht, ihr Lied geht auf die Reise
rund um die Welt, dass jeder Mensch es hört.

Und dieses Lied erzählt von Glück und Liebe,
sein froher Klang erhellt die Dunkelheit.
Und lass, Heil'ge Nacht, dies' Lied uns nie vergessen,
und nie mehr, nie mehr darf Krieg die Antwort sein.

O nie, o nie darf Krieg die Antwort sein.

[riverbabe]

Yesterday I tried to upload (didn't work) pictures of my 15 year-old granddaughter in her brand new dirndl that I bought her for her high school presentation of her German family history. She's getting a cuckoo clock from the schwarzwald for Christmas. Thank you US dollar! Danke!

[Louetta]

Still searching for a gift for that hard to shop for person (or yourself)? How about an electronic subscription to the New Yorker. They have images online of every weekly issue they have published since 1925. North of 4500 issues. What was actually written after the 1929 crash, during the depression, WWII, etc. Just looking at the ads, the clothes they wore (I started reading in 1925), the entertainment since there was no TV, car ads for the LaSalle (remember the Archie Bunker theme song) and the Packard, the prices of things, getting stuff COD. Blew my mind. $12 for 12 weeks.

[Louetta]

What a bitching venue ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZoZwdesumY

[billyjoe]

[QUOTE=Louetta;126161]What a bitching venue ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZoZwdesumY[ Louetta, Now I can't pick between Mirusia and my old flame, Frederica. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNWf-izk3w

-----------------billy

[mimo_100]

What a bitching venue ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZoZwdesumY

Here is one of my favorites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQbuJ24Wzg

and this too ... she has some pretty nice delts also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oejgyDzLM-8

[mimo_100]

about 6 months before the first Christmas

Some travel thoughts on the Visitation about 6 months before the first Christmas

Ein Karem, situated on the western slopes of Jerusalem, has special significance as the home town of Zechariah and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist, and the place of the Visitation, where Mary the mother of Jesus visited her cousin Elizabeth before John’s birth.

The normal means of transportation was walking. There is no record that Mary the Mother of Jesus ever rode a donkey! It is not mentioned in the Scriptures but it is mentioned in the second-century Christian writing, "Protoevangelium of James", chapter 17. So, riding on a donkey is a very early Christian tradition.

After she was conceived by the Holy Spirit, Mary traveled from Nazareth to Ein Karem, in the hills near Jerusalem where Elizabeth, her cousin, was pregnant with John the Baptist. This is a distance of 90 miles. At 20 miles per day, it would have taken 4-5 days.

Along the roads there were no toilet facilities, water or other travel needs. Life was tough in those days for the traveler. In the summer time the heat could reach up to 120 F. and in the winter there is often snow along that route. The way included mountains, valleys, rivers, desert and wilderness. There were bandits and killers hiding along the wayside. For those who could afford it, a donkey was brought along to help carry supplies.

Mary then traveled back to Nazareth (she was approximately 6 months pregnant now, having stayed 3 months with Elizabeth until John was born). Then, with Joseph, she traveled back south of Jerusalem to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus. During all this travel of approximately 300 miles, Mary was pregnant with Jesus!

[jiesen]

Merry Christmas, Everyone!!!

[billyjoe]

Here is one of my favorites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQbuJ24Wzg

and this too ... she has some pretty nice delts also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oejgyDzLM-8

Mimo, Bocelli's wife isn't hard on the eyes either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ52bYV0pls

-------------billy

[IIC]

Have a COOL YULE everybody

[Louetta]

Well done, methinks ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDwvct38Ww

[mimo_100]

Well done, methinks ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDwvct38Ww

From "The Georgetowner,": "Lucky the girl who has a best-selling song named after her! In this case, the girl was one of the most talked about people of her era, who remained the talk of this town for over seven decades. 'Alice Blue Gown' was written for President Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, a beautiful young girl who was the American equivalent of a princess and whose style signature was her azure blue gowns."

Interesting little "tart" with connections to Ohio.

[billyjoe]

Keeping with the Ohio connection, the home and final resting place of "Lemonade Lucy" is just a few miles west of me. A museum on the grounds of her estate featured an exhibition of drawings showing the evolution in drawings of Santa Claus from the 1840's to our modern day conception of the big man (not Mr.Market). Can you identify Lemonade Lucy without looking it up?

----------------billy

[Louetta]

'Nuther of my favorites. Grizabella, The Glamour Cat (Elaine Paige), now well past her prime and previously having been rejected by the other kitties, attempts a rapproachment. Initially the others literally turn their backs but, after listening to her lament, turn back. Finally two kittens, Jemima (Veerle Casteleyn), the other soloist, and Victoria (Phyllida Crowley Smith), the shiny grey kitty, make welcoming overtures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNWt3kiTWc