Today in my reading I learned that the root word of courage is Latin, "Cor" meaning heart. I'm not surprised because anything that takes a great amount of strength to endure, endeavor, and achieve it takes heart. It takes a reasoning within that says you can do it. Your heart keeps you strong and inspired. as stated last week I wanted to do something a little different. And I will do a few feature pieces this week with the central theme around the 4th of July. Of course they will be from an historical point because I think in the 21st century there are certain things we should have already advanced towards.
Christmas day was great. I didn't go to bed until the wee hours again and needless to say I was wrapping gifts at 4:30 that morning as the children rose ready to open their presents. It probably would be useless to most to continue wrapping when everyone would open them minutes after but I did so anyway. I like to do it and wrapping gifts is as much a part of the Christmas festivities as decorating the tree. And just as Christmas day was fun so was the day after. We followed up Christmas dinner with a fish fry and a game of spades. It was great and me and my partner won the game. We had great time laughing and kidding with each other. We listened to music and sang along. Nothing like those oldies but goodies. We all took part from the oldest to the youngest adding our voices to the music. To outsiders it may have seemed like no big deal but to me it was as much a part of loving each others as was the gift giving. I sat back and thought that's what ...
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