“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!” - Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol’

This week, as we prepare for the holidays… Oh heck… let’s face it – it’s crazy out there.

Sometimes it’s hard to stay Ho Ho Ho’ing as we wipe the sweat from our foreheads as we clean or make the Christmas cookies and such. To everyone I say, ‘Don’t give up!’ If for all of your labors you obtain but one smile; that’s one smile more than would have happened but for your hard work.

There will be no Thursday Prompt this week or next.

I will leave you then with a Quote by Charles Dickens concerning ‘similes’ that just tickled me to death (no pun intended). In this you will see the man as he writes and understand that he had quite a sense of humor.

“Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.” - Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol’


Merry Christmas to all of you!

Vixyy