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in the midst of winter, I found within my own self, an invincible summer (Albert Camus)
Holy Holly Dazzled, I collage you a blog:
The Holly plant study by Ralph Raphael Grosse-Kleimann:MEDICINAL USES
The leaves are used for colds with fever. They are soaked over
night, then briefly boiled, with a threefold effect: the fever goes down, the
cough is soothed and mucus is released.
I know nothing specific about the nature of the poison in the fruit except that eating a number of the red berries will cause stomachache, vomiting and diarrhea.
I know nothing specific about the nature of the poison in the fruit except that eating a number of the red berries will cause stomachache, vomiting and diarrhea.
Affirmation for Holly
The ultimate conquest of all will be through love and
gentleness, and when we have sufficiently developed these two qualities nothing
will be able to assail us, since we shall ever have compassion and not offer
resistance.
Indication for HollyFlower
Remedy
For those who are sometimes attacked by thoughts of such kind as jealousy, envy, revenge, suspicion.
For the different forms of vexation. Within themselves they may suffer much, often when there is no real cause for their unhappiness.
—Dr. Edward Bach (maker of Bach Flower Remedies)
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The Santa Clause Solution by Lorna Culling (me) as told to Louise Aldrich (above)
The problem
had gotten completely out of control and Santa was at his wits end. The North Pole was melting and it was no
longer safe to live there: All the reindeer but two, Donner and Blitzen, had
fallen through the cracks in the ice, broken knees and legs, and two reindeer
were just not enough to pull the sleigh full of toys! Even worse, the elves were disappearing,
getting lost on floating icebergs, and now all the elves were scared to leave
the house. But the house was cracked in
three different places, the toy workshop had four huge gaping holes, and the
wind was whistling through the eaves keeping everyone awake. Toy production had nearly ground to a halt
because everyone was too exhausted from lack of sleep, sluggish from lack of
exercise, and no one was out gathering Alpine moss for supper- for Santa this
was the worst: his elves were getting to the end of the food stores that he and
Mrs Santa had been gathering for hundreds of years! He had to do something.
So Santa wrote
a letter to all the children of the world and told them that he was very very
sorry but there was to be no Christmas this year. He told them that he and Mrs. Claus and the elves
would need to move to a new home in Greenland, somehow, because the North Pole
was melting, and melting very fast indeed.
He did not have enough money to buy the new home, let alone the
workshop, and no one would buy the North Pole house because of its damaged
condition, and the impending further glacial melt. He asked the children of the world if they
would prevail upon their parents’ good
wishes for future xmas’ ever to occur, to forego all presents this xmas, and
send all their money to Santa to move the North Pole crowd all to a Greenland
Santa property.
The word
went out to all the kids who visited Santa at the shopping centre, at the mall,
and in the department stores. The
department stores were particularly worried about this year, as business had
not been good and everyone was counting on a good xmas buying season to break
even. The letter was published in the
New Yourk Times, in the Loandan Daily, and all the languages of the world in
their own newspapers worldwide, the Tibetian Chronicles, the China Cup, the
Afripan Sizzler...
At first
the parents thought it was some kind of joke.
People gathering at the water coolers would snicker and laugh that Santa
could just out and cancel Christmas! “Just
what will they think of next, “ someone said, “The Easter Bunny revoking
Easter???” “Hahaha” they laughed,
“Impossible!”
But very
shortly the scientists across the world published the research and showed the
pictures to prove that Santa’s story was in fact actually true: The North Pole
had been melting for a long time, but suddenly it had started melting much much
faster, and penguins, polar bears, and pandas were all threatened as well.
It was a
very wise child named Genevieve who put it most succinctly: “We have to stop
Christmas until we can save Santa and if we don’t do it NOW, we may lose Christmas
forever and ever, amen!” It became a
rallying cry, and children of all ages all over the world, all each and every
one, decided to forego Christmas and ask nothing of their parents or Santa, except
to help Santa as much as they possibly could.
Money
poured into the North Pole post office, and Santa was able to buy a huge
compound in Greenland, charter twelve airplanes, and move the entire North Pole
operation and all its inhabitants, to the new Greenland Clause Village. Because of the great generosity of a few
billionaires, Guesthouses were able to be built, and Schools for the Elves so
that they could make better more sturdy and clever toys.
And it was Genevieve’s sister Avalon who made
Christmas 2012 even more fun than before, when she suggested that the kids fix,
clean and wrap their old toys, and each find a younger child who they could
give them to. Avalon knew how nice it
felt to give to others, so with the children doing the giving this year, the
children were happier than ever before.
This was a change in Christmas that the children of the world were happy to
keep, even after Santa was restored to his old toy delivery station. So the toys in the future were fewer from
Santa, but more from other children, and the toys from Santa were finer and
sturdier, because they needed to last much longer to be handed on to other
children in the future.
The
scientists wrote long letters to the grown-ups in the newspapers, on the
internet, in Facebook and Twitter. They
said that it might be possible to stop the melting, which was also flooding the
oceans with too much water, submerging several island nations, and ruining most
of the worlds beaches. They said that
the earth needed to cool from the inside, and we needed to stop covering it
with roads and parking lots paved with cement and asphalt. A very smart scientist named Sean Cullen,
from Taos, New Mexico, had discovered a compound which could be hard, but allow
the earth underneath to breathe, like a cotton t-shirt allows the skin to
breathe better than polyester. As it was
made without petroleum, but with hemp, a plant that’s easily grown in farms,
basements, and under grow lights, a new industry was developed which replaced
all the worlds roads and parking lots with Heavyhemp.
In
addition, a very smart scientist named Stephanie Barberra, created a kind of
hovercraft that had never been seen before, which was powered from magnetic
cables under the road, and controlled by electromagnetic connections to a master computer, which the
driver would dial into with their mobile Jphone, the next generation of iphone. People had a lot less stress because they
didn’t need to drive, only dial in their destination and the craft would be
safely computer driven, electro-magnetically repelling other vehicles from
crashes.
All the
cement and asphalt that had been pulled up from the roads and parking lots was
piled and used like building blocks to build parking structures and housing
skyscrapers, cheaply and very sound-proof.
All the homeless people who liked to make noise in the street were moved
into their own compartments, and every building had a huge community room with
weekly lunches, dances and music classes.
The Earth was able to breathe and cool down, and eventually the North
Pole froze over again.
Even
department stores and malls started to prosper as never before because they
became whole villages, complete with solar farms on the roofs, and hemp and
food farms in the basements, and crime was dissolved as everyone had more jobs,
more money, and more fun than ever before.
Santa
Clause stayed on in Greenland, however.
©2011 Loanda Lesser Cullen
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