It was a day of mother and child fun!

It was a day of birthday fun!

With its 3^rd ear, Aiadianis hears only danger, lurking

around each corner taken on 2-wheels like some

bootleg outlaw, while in Dains, Sinaidaia sees with

its 3^rd eye fireballs, blue fireballs, like static electricity

bouncing across wooded floors as if in Mitch Miller

sing-a-longs with the bouncing red ball of yore.

Two to one, Sinaidaia sees no cause for alarm, the

sing-a-longs were friendly enough. Aidianis deigns

Dains up in smoke, like fireballs frantically burst into

flame at the sighting of the whites of that eye.

That storm is building, sure sure are both but not

both concur beyond cloudburst. Flip a coin, heads,

tails, do we call that cloud danger, do we not?

Hands down, what price the not knowing? Put some

teeth in your guess, your shaky call is as good as

theirs. Tis 6:26, another 12 hours it’ll already be over;

you can just lock it and wait on whatever pops,

unlike they with their 5^th wheel sensory apparatus

appendages. Besides, OcherOgre in Umberdoun

thinks it only the wind, a big bag of augustian gusty

wind…. Hazard, et tu? Oder, nien? Schmidt, this must

be a Belgian Dane, it’s Tuesday on the Euro board.

                                1st written by Phyllis I. Behrens in 2000, in Arlington, TX 

2012’s only snow day thus far has been Feb. 13 - it began early & ended early.

*Time, time, time, see what’s become of me While I looked around For my possibilities … But look around, leaves are brown And the sky is a hazy shade of winter … Ahhh, seasons change with the scenery Weaving time in a tapestry … Funny how my memory slips while looking over manuscripts … And the sky is a hazy shade of winter Look around, leaves are brown There’s a patch of snow on the ground…* (Simon & Garfunkel 1966).

January 6, Feast of the Epiphany, is known in some parts of the world as Three Kings Day. It marks the visit to infant Jesus by people of distant countries and encompasses the story of the Magi, one of my favorite Biblical tales.    ♪ So of old the sages, watching Saw a little stranger star And they knew the Christ was given And they followed it from far Heard you never of the story … . As with gladness those of old Did the guiding star behold As with joy they hailed its light Leading onward, beaming bright… . ♫                             http://conjubilant.blogspot.com/

Our New Years have long begun with feasting and birthday celebrating, and so 2012 began.  ♪ Here we come a wassailing … And God send you a Happy New Year; …Basil (Ayios Vasilis erhete), leavened sweets, clove, rosemary…; Ring ring ring the bells, Ring them loud and clear, Let’s tell everyone around, That the New Year is here!! ♫

The Lord’s Prayer, sung by Frank Sinatra

*… It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Soon the bells will start, And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing, Right within your heart … Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring … Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time … Hark how the bells, sweet silver bells, all seem to say … Christmas is here, bringing good cheer … Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, in the lane, snow is glistening. A beautiful sight … as we go along, walking in a winter wonderland … Hear the snow crunch, see the kids bunch … Silver bells, silver bells … Ring-a-ling, hear them ring, soon it will be Christmas day … And all the bells on earth shall ring, On Christmas Day in the morning. … *

Bubbly Robot, MSU-Burns Fantasy of Lights, December 2008

Christmas Bells

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

read for LibriVox, 2006