Yuletide's Deepest Bellby Alan HarrisA scratch-scratch-scratch of Christmas card writing is wiggling world kitchen tables. Tight holiday harmonies from the stereos fill up festooned family rooms. Annual gladness is picking up speed as the ringers ring, the shoppers shop, the bustlers bustle, and the hawkers hawk. Bells remind the weary of pulsings in their hearts, transforming drone to tone. Such yearly yuletide waves are too magical to be real, too real to be magical, too just-right to be too anything at all. Yes, talkers overtalk, laughers overlaugh, givers overgive, and eaters overeat, but a subtle force is working to knit separated threads into scarves of good will. Folks feel an ancient peace and join at the heart in joy when the Deepest Bell rings "One.... One.... One...." PDF for printing | 
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