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....... if I hadn't been on my sick bed I would have posted this wondrous creation by humans I know and love much earlier - like at the beginning of Advent.
If you have not seen it just click HERE and pause a while.............. consider ............

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Ho Ho Ho

I am coughing more than I was yesterday but the rest of the Wilson frame is getting back to strength.
Pulling loose ends together and feel a wee bit strange that I have no gigs to prepare for - only a grand visit to Stable to spend time with The Sheilas, Peter, Julie, Barbara and Joan of course.

AND the USA trip which I turned my mind to today.
It has been as low as '-7' recently in Chicago and somewhat snowy in Portland too.

SELECTION BOX 2007
I will be producing a CD album in the coming weeks - full/rammed with beautiful music which is special to me. All tracks are from the last year. I have about 5,000 tracks, incoming music during 2007, to choose from and I will blend the album to ensure it flows into a wondrous groove - then peaks - then slows to an beautiful ending .........
............ well worth playing on repeat.
I have been producing an annual playlist for years - once upon a time in cassette form and more recently on CD.

I will mail one out to you if you are a blog visitor - free of charge.
If you would like one::
Please send me an email (link direct on my web-site home page)
Place your name and address in the subject box
(you can, only if you wish, place some text in the body of the email)
I will then collect them in my system and when I get back from the US
I will
BURN BABY BURN them ................ and send to you direct.




In your busy-ness ........ I wish you wonder in these coming days of small things becoming large miracle's ............

It is not coincidental that the angels’ announcement of Jesus’ birth

“Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace,
good will toward
men”
was made first to shepherds.

For people with
money,
education,
and
culture,
Christ’s message often seems too opposed to human wisdom to accept.
In fact, it flies in the face of everything the world teaches about
power and glory,
about ‘making it,’
about wealth and success
and prestige.

Johann Christoph Arnold

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Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

I have a 'Monthly eNewsletter' list of about 3,500 humans.
I have not been regular.
Last one out was last Christmas.
I am shamed ...........
And I am missing this Christmas because of disturbances here at
"Coughing Mansions".

So here is a little Christmas greeting to you
who find time on the slippery-Christmas slope
to click this way.

I plan to blog all this week
and over Christmas holiday days
and in the USA - we go 27/12

I will be posting some beautiful tunes too
Have you heard the current one on my blog piPod?
'James Brown' Go power at Christmas
it works up a storm
(make sure you get some decent sounding speakers for your computer
- it makes all the difference)

I will be clicking about my 'Selection Box 2007' offer - soon.
This is my annual selection and music-cd distribution to blog readers only.

with a Christmas cough and splutter - I will see you later

I think Jesus will be here again this Christmas
to tell you
'you are beautiful'
again
get close to hear the whisper ............
bend down - get closer ............
kneeling may do the trick .......
feel his breath on your neck ........
shivers down your sparkling spine ..........

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Christmas
makes
me
nervous.

The Infinite who came in a feeding trough is not the kind of God I want.

He is too powerless for my liking.

Such a God is an embarrassment,

not just to the Herods of this world,

but to all who are enamored with themselves and their own potency.

I don’t want this God.

I have an inn to offer,

decorated for Christmas,

not a stinking stall.

God exists in weakness and comes to those who reach up to him with
empty hands.

He is neither useful nor helpful.

He came and still comes,

not to solve our problems or answer our questions or fulfill our
needs or bless our endeavors,

but to expose our problems,

to question our answers,

to be our need,

and to point us to his kingdom.

In Christ,

God enters time and space to turn our world upside down and inside out.

“Valleys are made high, mountains are laid low.”

We are left bewildered,

undone.






Charles Moore

Hey
............. hello from
Tissue-Mound Mansions::

I have never had a week like it but today I am feeling more like real.
The head and eye ache has gone today - leaving me with a irritating cough and tissue demanding stuff.

I am going to leave the topic - never to mention it again.
(That is not right really - I always have said on these keys that I will tell you how I am and not just what I do.
That needs to involve feelings, Level Five stuff, so I will be honest as I can about all things.)

My medication notes say that one side effect, of the penicillin based treatment, is depression.
I have had all the others like being lazy and drowsy - but I am not a sufferer of depression.
I feel deeply for those who suffer - I know so many. It is a dark tunnel and can be a long one.
I have had all the physical symptoms but, as I have tried to think beyond those towering influences,
I have focused on the temporary nature of this thing.
It has made me more sensitive to those around me with a 'cold' and all things worse.
It is reminded me that when we have toothache we can think, and often 'feel', of nothing else.
Thinking of how I feel beyond the cotton wool cloud I am in - has helped me to stay in the reality of other feelings like
value
esteem
love
being loved
spiritual - beyond the physical and material ............

I cannot say it has been a good experience
but a 'learning one'
I can.

Thanx to all the humans who have sent me warm messages.
I needed the warmth amongst the shivers.
I need humans ..................

I guess tomorrow I will get back and open my inbox
start to reply to the list.
Connect again.
Beyond myself again ..................

I have also lost a week. This coming week I had planned to give to the Taxman. If I don't do that I will be up against the wall with work/mission commitments (tax) again when I return from Christmas in a Stable - and New Year in the US.

I am starting to think now - see.
I have had a break from all that!

Hope you have time to think how you feel?
Hope the rush of the season will have space for you to journey beyond
beyond the exterior
beyond to the interior you ................ that is a beautiful place
where a beautiful human resides ...........

5 Words::
(to describe my life at the moment)

coughing
thinking
appreciating
yearning
relieved

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....... emerging from the fifth day of
mainly in bed
mainly sleep.

Life has passed me by
not really cared about things
deep in virus matters.

I expect tomorrow I will even view my inbox
take some interest in the Christmas card greetings
think what I could do
and what I cannot - yet.

I have never been shaveless for a week
never missed a Christmas 'up north' w/e
never been so thoughtless
'care-less'
and I suppose,
hopeless.

I guess I may even blog propa
tomorrow




as the picture says
you are
that is beyond all feelings and viruses ..........




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Still dysfunctional here at Wilson Mansions
will be back when a bit better ........................