Far from home,
surrounded by brown desert,
in a hotel room, alone,
a podcast plays the annual
Christmas Eve story
and the holiday arrives
despite the lack of snow,
gifts,
cookies,
tree,
or children.
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.
.
CBC plays this beautiful Forsyth short story every year, and I always have a little tear over it. The late Alan Maitland was a wonderful reader. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-shepherd-edition-2016-1.3907204
Shawn L. Bird 
Merry Christmas and Happy New year to you and your family.
Same to you, Deb! Is New York chilly today? We’re in sunny Phoenix for another few hours.
It’s in the 40s here in NY. Thanks
Beautiful… Happy Christmas to you, Shawn! Thanks for your awesome poetry!
Thank you! And thanks for visiting, doverwhitecliff!
Merry Christmas, one day late. I was in Phoenix, yesterday, as well. Prescott, an hour and fifteen minutes to the north, got 9 inches of snow.
Yes! We were planning to head up to Sedona, but cancelled our reservation and stayed a couple days more in Tucson and went a day earlier to Phoenix avoiding that snow! But now we’re home, and DH is shovelling a foot off the driveway, while I’m cozy inside.