This holiday season, many of you will go home (or stay home) and encounter family, friends, and Christmas music. To kill or enlighten the time, here's an innocuous (but lively!) conversation/competition of the greatest Christmas songs of all time!
Freedom with Constraints
Humanity, in 9:44 seconds.
Still I Rise, by Dr. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou recites her poem Still I Rise, which was published in 1978. The recitation includes some opening remarks…the poem begins like so:
The best books of 2016
Hungry Monsters, Kill the Cat
From All Around the World
BIG ME : little me
Don't Quit, Just Drive
Regular People, Like Us
Fatherhood
The Beginning
Beyond Tolerance
Since the day we moved in with the six teenage juvenile boys, JC was a problem. Raised on some of the harshest streets of Philadelphia, he had a toughness and confidence I wasn’t used to, I wasn’t prepared for. “He’s the real deal,” I was warned in the days leading up to our move, “in all my years,” the counselor told me, “he’s the only one whose truly scared me.”
Unexpected Kindness
This is the second holiday in less than five months that’s been saved by a stranger. Christmas could have been ruined, but was saved through humility. Mother’s Day weekend could’ve also failed; it should’ve failed, even though we entered the forest fully prepared. But it wasn’t. It was saved by the unexpected kindness of a stranger.