“Every Day A Miracle”
Photo Courtesy: Yelm’s award-winning Rory Sagner Photography & Fine Art
Taken in Yelm October 30, 2013, at sunrise


“Christmas in the Northwest – Brenda Kutz White”
“Post production opening clip taken from The Christmas in the Northwest Christmas special that aired on KOMO TV [Channel 4] in Seattle back in December of 1987 featuring Brenda Kutz White’s song “Christmas in the Northwest.”

All proceeds from the Christmas in the Northwest project go to Children’s Hospital in Seattle, Washington.”
Copyright © 1987 Fisher Broadcasting, Inc.
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– “Do You Hear What I Hear? (Home Free) (Christmas A Cappella)” 2015
“Originally written during the Cuban missile crisis [Oct. 1962], a parallel can be drawn to any time when the world needs a reminder to love not hate.”
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Editor’s note:
This is an excellent Op-Ed well worth the annual read at Christmas time –

“Merry Iconoclastic Christmas”
“It never ceases to amaze me how the loudest practitioners of Christianity in the United States are so consistently able to sidestep and ignore the core teachings of their religion with apparently no shame whatsoever.”

“Conclusion: The majority of ‘Christians’ in these United States of ‘Christian’ America don’t give a single solitary damn about the lives of people who resemble their ‘savior’ a whole hell of a lot more than they do.”
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout.
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And this quote by Mahatma Gandhi:
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”


WARMEST WISHES THIS HOLIDAY SEASON FROM THE YELM COMMUNITY BLOG TO YOU & YOUR FAMILIES!


– UPDATES for Christmas 2015
“1 Airline Took Sick Kids to the “North Pole” and Reminded Us What the Holidays Are All About”
“This airline [United] went the extra mile by “flying” 40 ill and recovering kids to the “North Pole” for the fantasy trip of a lifetime.”
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“How to Be a Merry Environmentalist”
“You don’t have to be a Grinch to get rid of this wasteful holiday tradition [mailing 1.6 billion holiday cards.]”
By Beth Porter, OtherWords.
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“9 Reasons The Upcoming Christmas Moon Is A Once In A Lifetime Event”
By Beth Buczynski, Distractifly.
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