[AT] Snow and the season
Keith Kinney
kkinney at herculesengines.com
Sun Dec 26 10:20:50 PST 2010
Very well said Dean. Beautiful setting. Merry Christmas to one and all!
Keith
On Dec 26, 2010, at 9:57 AM, dean at vinsonfarm.net wrote:
>
> 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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