Dancing down the Withywindle: A late Christmas post

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

A late Christmas post

Little Brother was overjoyed Christmas morning when he saw that good St. Nick had left him a train! It is a beautiful train, with a red engine, three cars, and a caboose.

Once I got it all assembled and correctly wired (which took ages, as I'm not mechanically inclined), he spent hours running it around and carefully putting the cars back on the track when they fell off.

The two of us on Christmas Eve.

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I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.

-Bilbo Baggins,
The Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien

Dancing down the Withywindle

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

A late Christmas post

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