Countdown to 2014! - Richard Clayderman's Birthday Anniversary

Richard Clayderman
French-born pop music pianist
Born: 28 December 1953
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Richard Clayderman, piano (1984)
- Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)

Countdown to 2014!

~ Cho-Cho San 'Butterfly' ~
Opera Babes
Rebecca Knight, Soprano
Karen England, Messo-Soprano
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Opera Babes, duet (2003)
- Un Bel Di (Puccini)

A Christmas Eve Message to Blog Visitors

Then said I, 'Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me, )
to do thy will, O God.'

-- Hebrews 10:7 (KJV)  cf. Psalm 40:7-8 (KJV)


24 December 2013
Christmas Eve

Dear L'envoi Blog Visitor:

Sweeping in on its "winged chariot", time is hurrying near on the ready to collect and seal away the year. Before that happens, we have the most anticipated event of the year and season to celebrate yet. Christmas!

Were it not God's everlasting love and grace for the redemption of a wretched world, a dark and dreary winter "always winter" would be, "never Christmas." Christ has come as a "light to lighten" the "people that sat in darkness" of despair. We now have seen this "great light"; Jesus Christ, the "Sun of Righteousness is risen with healing in his wings." He has come and triumphed over sin's morose darkness.

Surely, Jesus has brought light and life with the dawn of redeeming grace. A wonder of wonders; its depth reason cannot fathom. May Christmas Day, the joy before us, bring a gladder and brighter year to you.


L'



- a L'envoi iPad 3 post
Zaggfolio augmented

Christmas Eve 2013

A Hymn for this Christmas Eve 2013
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Renata Scotto, soprano (1981)
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City
- Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)

Winter Solstice, 2013

Lat: 37.7° N
Current Conditions: 47.4°F/8°C, Clear

Astronomy:

December  21, 2013       Rise:        Set:
Actual Time            7:15 AM PST  4:49 PM PST
Civil Twilight         6:46 AM PST  5:18 PM PST
Nautical Twilight      6:13 AM PST  5:51 PM PST
Astronomical Twilight  5:41 AM PST  6:23 PM PST
Moon                   9:05 PM PST  9:48 AM PST

Waning Gibbous, 81% of the moon is illuminated

Length of Visible Light 10h 32m
Length of Day 9h 33m
Tomorrow will be 0m 2s longer

Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole
(2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013)

The Obamacare A-Team

Is it a wonder my health insurance premium has gone up? Think of the bananas these Washington critters have to consume daily while they are managing Obamacare. Sibelius, not the composer, should be in the crowd somewhere. She is the Kongette. See if you can spot her. You think these apes are on a slippery slope? Not. All I hear them saying is, "Tough banana, bud. We are exempted from Obamacare!"

Andy Williams Birthday Anniversary

Andy 'Moon River' Williams
(3 December 1927 - 25 September 2012)

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Andy Williams (1973)
- It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Book Read in November 2013

Christian Writings - Charles H. Spurgeon, "A Defense of Calvinism."