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Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters – Mele Kalikimaka – White Christmas – 1950

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Hugh Sidey

On This Day

Dec 22, 1900 – The first car to be produced under the “Mercedes” name is delivered to its buyer: Emil Jellinek, the Austrian car racer and auto dealer to the rich and famous.

“I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‘Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.”

Jim Carrey

hueandeyephotography:

Tall ships, Charleston Harbor, Charleston, SC © Doug Hickok All Rights Reserved hue and eye the peacock’s hiccup

georgetakei:

Freezing his… http://ift.tt/1bYjKX0

Charity Books Over 100 Flights To Fly Service Members Home For The Holidays

Even when a service member finds out that he or she can take off for the holidays, sometimes the good news comes so last minute that it’s impossible to find a reasonably priced ticket…MORE

Huffington Post

pbsamericanmasters:

On this day in 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald died at age 44. What’s your favorite of the novelist’s work?

Read an excerpt from his essay “The Crack-Up.”

rogerwilkerson:

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