| … Give this one day of thanks to joy, to gratitude! —Henry Ward Beecher Let’s celebrate those countless little joys that ride brisk winds in a pumpkin patch of orange hear wild geese, in flap and chatter, homing to warmer climes catch a whiff of wood smoke, of burning leaves … it’s autumn. Let’s sniff harvest kitchen smells taste fresh pumpkin pie warm our backs near a roaring log fire join in family meal prayer … Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. Let’s hear the music of the bells cathedral bells, sleigh bells, jingle bells stroll in evening snowfall, sing holiday carols listen to the stillness of the night … O Holy Night of Christmas. Let’s hope for new beginnings, for life, for love, for joy pray for peace on earth and a joyous New Year. They will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness. —Psalm 145:7 |
| Rita Goodgame has been published in Woman's World, Grandmother Earth, and in A Fordham Anthology. She has won an Arkansas Writers' Grand Conference Literary Award, First Place awards in ByLine Magazine and prose/poerty awards in The National League of American Pen Women, Pioneer Branch. She finds great pleasure writing stories for her seventeen grandchildren. |
| Celebrate by Rita Goodgame |
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