Morey Amsterdam o
Frances ("Aunt Bee") Bavier o Jane Birkin o Marilyn Cooper o Dan Dailey o Patty Duke o George Furth o Don Hewitt o Spike Jones o Abbe Lane o Nostradamus o Lee Remick o Charlie Rich o Geraldine Robinson o Margaret Chase Smith
Impatience can be a
virtue if you practice it on yourself.
What I see convinces me there is a God. What I cannot see
confirms it.
The shortest way to success is believing in what it is you
wish for.
INVITATION
I’ve seen so many Merry Xmas
signs
with Christ squeezed out by laziness
or the printer’s economic need.
The outrage that it once produced
has almost found its way into the attic
with nineteen-sixty’s broken toys.
(Had I not the faces of small children
to mirror Christ for me all year long
I might believe God dead, or sleeping anyway.
Though I doubt there lives a Lucifer
who could make September leaves to fall
or set the tails of dogs to wagging.)
God is living in the mountains,
a recluse from some people’s hearts.
but he’d drop by smiling in the chilly night
and celebrate his first son’s birthday
if we cared enough to keep the porch light on.
-from “The Carols of Christmas,”1971. First
published in Woman’s Day, 1969
