HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Wishing you and yours a holiday season filled with love, giving, sharing and the warmth of home.


May the new year make your dreams a reality. May it allow you to move forward  with an attitude of gratitude and your heart filled with praises.


If I sent this card to you, here is what the inside would say:

Another year to proclaim

Another season to your name

Another chance to show your love

To family, friends and God above

Seasons come, seasons change

In life many things remain the same

Seasons are a way to remind us

To stay strong, faithful and to trust

Recapping the year is not a mystery

Many experiences will make history

As you look back, look forward & look through

Be you, do you and stay true

God Bless You!

- Written by Celia Collymore

12/19/2011

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'Tis the Season

It's that time of year to spread the holiday cheer. It’s the perfect time to share love, hope, peace, and the gift of giving to home, family and others.

A perfect example of the "beauty of giving", comes from my childhood days back in Barbados. As kids, we all looked forward to one special lady, "Auntie Olga", who understood the true meaning of "giving" . She would drive through our neighborhoods spreading the holiday cheer, dressed in a Santa outfit, sharing gifts and candy to families.

These were good times, happy times, knowing that she always

delivered and never forgot about us. We didn't personally know her, but loved her for who she was and what she represented in our lives - excitement, laughter, love, sharing, caring and a sense of feeling worthwhile. 

Here is a poem "Dame Olga Lopes-Seale" wrote about GIVING:

 "At this time of giving- Give to your enemy forgiveness
Give to your opponent tolerance
Give to your friend your heart
Give to your child a good example
Give to your parents deference
Give to everybody sunny smiles.

Giving open doors and hearts and makes affection glow.

Giving stirs fires of friendship when they're burning low.

All too often through our lives there runs a selfish theme. Thoughts and hopes are concentrates on one's own pet scheme.

Then Christmas comes and turns the mind from our self-centered ways.

We have to open hearts and purses in the festive days.

We have to think of others, and of self a little less,
Choosing presents, writing letters, giving happiness.”

More about Auntie Olga
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