A special touch of magic is in the air…something fleeting, warm, and lovely. It must be the whisper of a coming special day–Christmas!
Thanks to all of you who made Black Friday for Moonlight Can Be Murder a cozy success! For one day only, it was 99 cents on Amazon and now it is scheduled to be back to its usual price of $4.97, as are Grave Shift, Best Left Buried, and Grave Heritage. But, you know what? The ice-breaker, premier cozy that started the whole Darcy and Flora series, The Cemetery Club, is still only 99 cents. That’s quite a bargain! And, it isn’t even Black Friday!
Yesterday, my grandchildren helped me put away Thanksgiving for one more year and haul out all the Christmas decorations. The tree is up and decorated, wreaths are outside the door, and a whole array of gourd snowmen deck the mantel.
My tree is not a beautiful work of art; rather, it is decorated with items from the past–the far, distant past as well as the not-so-distant. A few decorations from my kindergarteners hang from the limbs. Those little five-year old are all grown up and many have children of their own, but, the small tree ornaments cause the years to drop away. Some of Matt’s ornaments he made in kindergarten are on that small tree; so is a cloth tree-shape made from a scrap of my grandmother’s quilt, complete with the cotton grown at Etta Bend. Atop the tree is a small angel made by my sister-in-law Carlene and the tree skirt was latch-hooked by my sister Helen. My grandchildren’s decorations and those of a dear friend’s grandchildren hang from the tree. I don’t think it is a Christmas tree; it is a memory tree.
That Special Touch of Magic
What is the best gift you could give anyone? It doesn’t cost a thing; in fact, it is not something you can wrap up and tie with a bow. It is the gift of your time. Just sitting and chatting with someone, listening to them, trying to see things through another’s eyes is really the most precious gift of all.
This begins the special season leading up to the celebration of the birth of the Lord Jesus. He is, after all, the reason we have Christmas. It’s pretty neat that a special warmth seems to be in the air and even ordinary, everyday things take on a fleeting beauty. It would be nice if that special touch of magic would last throughout the whole year.
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