Little Farm for the Holidays: Celebrating the Christmas Season Homestead-Style: Little Farm in the Foothills, #5
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Little Farm for the Holidays is a cozy, inspiring little read to bring more light and cheer to your Christmas!
In these warmhearted true stories, you'll find easy, down-to-earth ways to enhance your holiday gifting and celebrations—all with a homestead, country flavor. You'll also find thoughtful, gentle guidance for making the most of the season.
Little Farm for the Holidays invites you to explore some new traditions, to consider modifying the holiday rituals that may no longer work for you, and possibly find the Christmas spirit you've been looking for.
This small, but wise book may even help you rediscover the magic, joy and connection you hope for over the holiday season!
Susan Colleen Browne is the author of the Little Farm in the Foothills homesteading books, and the Irish Village of Ballydara series! Look for more of her holiday fiction books: The Christmas Visitor, The Hopeful Romantic, Morgan Carey and The Mystery of the Christmas Fairies, and there's a Christmas thread in Becoming Emma!
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Little Farm Homegrown: A Memoir of Food-Growing, Midlife, and Self-Reliance on a Small Homestead: Little Farm in the Foothills, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLittle Farm in the Foothills: A Boomer Couple's Search for the Slow Life: Little Farm in the Foothills, #1 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Little Farm in the Henhouse: A True-Life Tale of Hen-Keeping Homestead-Style: Little Farm in the Foothills, #4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLittle Farm for the Holidays: Celebrating the Christmas Season Homestead-Style: Little Farm in the Foothills, #5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
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Little Farm for the Holidays - Susan Colleen Browne
THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS
Feeling a sense of awe, to me, is a gift of being human. It’s that glimpse of something larger than ourselves, of having a sense of the miraculous—that somehow, through forces we will never understand, we are alive on an isolated chunk of rock spinning through the vastness of the Universe.
It’s those moments when I see a shooting star, view our rare Aurora borealis, or find myself in the presence of something sublimely beautiful, like the slanting pink light on the Foothills at sunset. Or see the sweetness in a baby’s face.
Yet call it serendipity, or synchronicity, there are some things you might experience, or miracles
you hear about, that make your spine tingle a little—because they can’t be explained by rational thought or science. Or even common sense.
If this serendipity happens at Christmas, it feels like a gift, doesn’t it?
Yet these magical or other-worldly experiences don’t need to be confined to holiday traditions. As someone attuned to all things Irish, I’ve come across some spine-tingling Irish stories.
I had an interesting student in one of my creative writing classes. Her mother’s grandmother came from Ireland, with the surname of Quinn. This mother, an American, had recurring dreams all her life of an old castle ruin with crumbling steps. Later in life, she went to Ireland on a tour, and the bus stopped at a castle.
Exploring the grounds, this woman saw those same steps she’d seen in her dreams. The name of the castle? Castle Quinn.
An old friend of mine, an Irish-American author, took her first trip to Ireland some years ago. Before the aircraft landed, she gazed down at the green hills of the Emerald Isle below and was completely overcome by the conviction that she belonged