Merry Christmas

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Today was a good day. We celebrated, had people over, and my sister and I even contributed dishes to the menu (mine were spiced pumpkin lasagne and plaited cheese bread). I don't feel exhausted. I do feel the need to offer you a little Christmas Carol though, of my own composition. It's entitled To know them better (A Christmas Carol)

Nothing familiar is ever fully known.

Here stands Christmas at our door, 

He never comes in, but yet asks for more.

Hands to work on the soil around,

Words to offer the friend un-found.

Telling them who know not each other

Yet have known all these years

Give a care, give a care.

It isn't just the strangers, He says 

That are strange, 

But even the ones that know our names

Fail not to see through; 

Fail not to see through;

Nothing familiar is ever fully known.