[AT] Snow and the season

[Gene Dotson]

    Thanks for the photo Dean. Another Christmas Card candidate.

    I certainly admire your talents with a camera.

     A belated Merry Christmas to you.

            Gene


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From: <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
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Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 10:57 AM
Subject: [AT] Snow and the season


>
> Hello and good morning, all you fine folks on the list. I've enjoyed a 
> lightly
> snowy Christmas among neighbors and family at my dad's farm in northeast 
> Ohio, a
> lovely a setting as one could ask for, and a time of celebration of our
> blessings in life as well as shared recognition and support for the
> challenges--personal, physical, financial--that each of us faces in our 
> varying
> extents. I recall one childhood Christmas in particular where everything 
> seemed
> perfect and I had no worries of the future, no awareness that hard times 
> could
> come or that sometimes hard times don't end the way we'd like. The passage 
> of
> decades has taken away that possibility for me, yet still this was a good
> Christmas, a good moment to pause and celebrate and share the connection 
> of
> friends and family.
>
> Some of you on the list I've met, most I haven't, but among my 
> celebrations
> today is gratitude for the sense of friendship and family I find here--not 
> the
> childlike delight in opening a new present (although, come to think of it, 
> when
> one of us acquires a new tractor or achieves some restoration victory, it 
> comes
> close--but the sense of sitting around the breakfast table on a snowy 
> morning
> with hot coffee and people with whom I share an understanding of common 
> travels
> and hopes.
>
> God rest ye merry, gentlemen.
>
> Dean Vinson
> on the farm in Robertsville, Ohio, near the window where years ago I took 
> this
> photo:
> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/barn_winter.jpg
>
>
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