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#5JoysFriday!
1. The soup my husband made for me while I was sick with a cold
2. A Zoom call with my spiritual direction mentor group, where we talked about JOY!
3. That conversation led me to Mary Oliver‘s poem “Mindful”:
“…It was what I was born for—
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world—
to instruct myself
over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.”
https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/words-of-wonder/mindful-mary-oliver/
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Come join us! We bought an illustrated copy with the real letters etc and Wes loved doing this last year! #tolkienchristmas #fellowshipoftolkien @Daisey @JazzFeathers

Both @JazzFeathers and I have been busy and not great readalong hosts, so we‘re not starting any new Tolkien reads until next year. However, it‘s become a tradition for us to reread this book each December, and we‘d love to have you join us.

This is the same schedule as last year. I‘m tagging my entire Tolkien list today, but please comment if you would like to be on my tag list for this specific book.

#FellowshipOfTolkien #TolkienChristmas

#FellowshipOfTolkien #TolkienChristmas

I'm always so sad to finish the Letters from Father Christmas because it's a melancholy ending. During the war, with Tolkien finally giving up on a tradition he kept for over 20 years.

But this is a wonderful book, full of joy (for the most part) and the obvious love of a dad for his children.
It always warms my heart.

#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
📖 Letters from Father Christmas
#TolkienChristmas #FellowshipOfTolkien
🎧 Don Quixote

#CurrentlyReading
🎧 Amadis of Gaul
🎧 A Home at the End of the World
📖 Ravenfall

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 Possibly listen to A Christmas Carol tomorrow

I really enjoyed reading this. What a gift to give your children every Christmas! Tolkien even invented an alphabet and a nice script for these letters. The misadventures of the North Polar Bear are hilarious. The illustrations are outstanding. This definitely was the year of Tolkien for me.

#FellowshipOfTolkien #TolkienChristmas

What a wonderful daily read at Christmas! Thank you @Daisey and @JazzFeathers for picking this for #TolkienChristmas for the #FellowshipofTolkien. It was a delight to check in each day for the further adventures of Father Christmas and North Polar Bear, in their letters to the Tolkien children. The drawings, and the cheeky side comments from NPB were so much fun. ❤️💚🎅🏼🎄🐻‍❄️💚❤️

Such a delightful read to get in the spirit of Christmas! Tolkien wrote letters to his children from Father Christmas & friends for 20 years. You‘ll find some laugh out loud shenanigans happening in the North Pole with polar bears, snowboys, elves, and goblins as well as stunning illustrations! Tolkien‘s daughter-in-law/secretary edited this beautiful book to share with the world. #TolkienChristmas @Daisey Thank you. ❤️

This is one of my favorites to read every December ❤️

#FellowshipofTolkien #TolkienChristmas @Daisey @JazzFeathers

I finished the last couple letters and enjoyed this reread as much as ever, especially the illustrations. I always appreciate Tolkien‘s way of bringing wartime difficulties into these letters for his children, but combined with them growing up, it makes for some very bittersweet last letters.

I hope everyone else is enjoying reading these as well!

#TolkienChristmas #FellowshipOfTolkien #Christmas