tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post4162025202324071852..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: The Ghosts of Christmas Past - Umberto TosiKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-5876191597543707702019-12-04T11:32:06.503+00:002019-12-04T11:32:06.503+00:00Add my name to the list of admirers of your writin...Add my name to the list of admirers of your writing, Umberto, and my thanks for this elegant rumination on a season that brings out bad but mostly good in most. I only wish this appreciation of and gratefulness for transcendence were universal, but I'm thankful that it's still strong in plenty of us. I'm also envious of Jonesie.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-16753276622253012932019-12-04T10:32:27.246+00:002019-12-04T10:32:27.246+00:00Excellent write!
Love it!
Great job!
Makes the rea...Excellent write!<br />Love it!<br />Great job!<br />Makes the reader reflect on your what is really going on in our country and inspires and challenges us to think hard and do something about it!<br />You are a great writer!<br />Excellent talent with loads of experience to back your gift up.Karahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03905585748188333898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-11931963964018358432019-12-03T16:30:35.948+00:002019-12-03T16:30:35.948+00:00What Griselda said! There's nothing I can add....What Griselda said! There's nothing I can add.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-74575695450530663512019-12-03T15:05:21.773+00:002019-12-03T15:05:21.773+00:00You mean to say you're NOT Santa Claus (or Fat...You mean to say you're NOT Santa Claus (or Father Christmas)? Alas, another glorious illusion bites the dust.<br /><br />A wonderful post, with the Christmas atmosphere throwing into sharp relief your (absolutely justified) anger at the Trump administration's appalling treatment of immigrant families. I followed the link, and then more and more links - it is a horrific story. I'd no idea that the separation of children from their parents is a deliberate policy, to discourage other immigrants - which I'm guessing doesn't work anyway. Unbelievable cruelty, made worse by total lack of responsibility, no system in place for reuniting the families. Heartbreaking. As you say, your Milagro story 5 years ago was more prescient than you could have guessed.<br /><br />Let's hope 2020 brings more charity and compassion everywhere (goodness knows we need it over here too). Happy Christmas to you both. Griselda Heppelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09207965148074302337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-29040832629683048282019-12-03T05:59:58.251+00:002019-12-03T05:59:58.251+00:00Looking forward to holiday cheer with you and Elea...Looking forward to holiday cheer with you and Eleanor. Enjoyed reading this. Let's hope for a new beginning free of the pretender in the White House and freedom for those poor children and their families who are his victims.🎄 🗽Barbara Bladeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03333036504931542523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-83715063608071459182019-12-03T02:45:21.577+00:002019-12-03T02:45:21.577+00:00An excellent holiday meditation. This is a wonderf...An excellent holiday meditation. This is a wonderful reflection on this season.. where as always we humans titter on the brink of destruction or transcendence. I love this qoute: “Joyce's haunting tale conveys a sacred core of the Christmas season for me, not of Santas and lights and tinsel, but of mystery, transition, and transcendence. Each time I read it I am moved close to tears by the end, as Joyce's Gabriel awakens to the transcendence of existence.’ Alicia Sammonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16179678841763685480noreply@blogger.com