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It is fun to get a mystery gift in the mail! So much fun, it really should happen more often! When I received my holiday swap gift from Linda Mitchell, I was busy and had forgotten, I think, that Christmas would be here soon. I’d forgotten swap time was near.
I puzzled over this bulging envelop that appeared in my mailbox for a moment before I opened it. What could this be?
Inside I found a so called “Junk journal” with all sorts of treasures spilling out from it, which made it hardly junk.
I found a package of cut out words to be used as “poem seeds,” various collage pictures, such as stars made of paper,
and, of course, poetry.
This acrostic poem by Linda came with it:
And another wonderful poem was also inside, entitled “Today’s Poem Offers”:
TODAY'S POEM OFFERS A bumper crop of stars fresh from the fields of Falling Star Farms Stars heaped up high sparkly with dew fresh-picked by me ready for you Fill a bag, fill a basket your pockets too with all these good wishes my star harvest holds for you by Linda Mitchell, 2022
My new little journal, put me in the holiday mood, so I wrote this in response:
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT comes from the heart, arrives in December- a surprise when it starts. You think you aren't ready the Grinch has your ear, but when it takes hold it can light a new year. © Janice Scully 2022
Happy Chanukah and Merry Christmas! And may the holiday spirit last well into the New Year.