Just got back from a large Christmas Eve service at a large Evangelical church: 6-bank organ, brass, timpani, chorus. Wow. Real gooseflesh time when the processional, O Come, All Ye Faithful, modulates up a third and goes processional with:
"Sing, choirs of angels, Sing in exultation, Sing, all ye citizens of Heaven, above!"
And hey, since we are all (except the neverMos among us) adopted into the House of Israel, Happy Hanukkah. This year was one of those once in a blue moon events when the first day of Hanukkah falls on Dec 25.
Happy New Year back at ya! And may I wish you a 'Happy New Year' from all of Raymondom too! Good news to report. The Raymond Comets lost the Sugar Bowl. LOL! They lost the provincials for the football too. The town feels like being at the wake of a funeral or something. LOL! Well, I'M glad, at least.