Martin and Ray said…

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Religious reformer Martin Luther: “If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.”

Author Ray Bradbury: “Heaven is a house with porch lights.”

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Credit:
Photo from the personal and copyrighted collection of Barbara Anne Helberg

Christmas Lights Appearing

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Does it seem like Christmas is coming already? Are you beginning to think about the Christmas shopping season, and what you’ll get for whom?

Isn’t it rather early for this annual obsession about the biggest gift-giving holiday of the American year to creep into our mindsets?

It seems to be as though we used to wait at least until Thanksgiving to put Christmas lights in our homes and yards, and yet…

Christmas lights were installed on the Napoleon, Ohio, bridge this evening!

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Credit:
Photo from the personal and copyrighted collection of Barbara Anne Helberg