Our annual Christmas letter is going in the mail today, and we thought it appropriate to post our Holiday greetings in the Almanac as well.
Christmas 2013
Art
and Joan Ode
Dear
Friends:
As yet another year comes to an end, we are
grateful for its blessings of family, friends and good health. It was a quick-time year, accelerated by
visits to our children and grandchildren in Texas, Ohio and Colorado and their
visits to woodsy Bayfield.
We experienced unprecedented visits from friends and acquaintances, old and new, as well. It was also a year of weddings; the children
of family and friends starting out on the serious and exciting venture of
creating their own families, and we wish them all the rewards of lives well
led.
Art continues to be active in his
profession, which takes both of us to many interesting and beautiful places
around Wisconsin. Our dog Buddy always
goes along for the ride (and maybe a good run in a new field or woods along the
way).
As the years fly by, the season becomes for
us more a time for memories of Christmases past, as we conjure up images of
Tannenbaums with handmade ornaments, surrounded by mysterious, beribboned packages; of traditional
Christmas cakes and cookies baked by mothers and aunts; and especially of loved
ones, many now departed, gathered ‘round the Holiday table.
Memories aside, we look forward to being with all of our children and
grandchildren this Christmas in Texas.
Until
we meet again, have a merry Christmas, a happy and healthy New Year, and may
the whole world rejoice in the angels’ promise of “Peace on Earth, and Good
Will Toward Men.”
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