MERRY CHRISTMAS Amy - Dec. 25, 2017
Charles Rozell
Operations Manager at Livin the Dream = semi retired but I will come out of retirement for a new challenge.
Merry Christmas Amy – December 25th, 2017 Krismasi Njema, Amy - 25 Desemba 2017
Amy,
I phoned my Mom the other day and we started talking about Christmas past, I know, it almost sounds like a movie or a book. This day she was very lucid though and was able to recall and remember a lot of the details of the Christmas’s we used to have together as a family. I told her that when we were growing up I know now that we didn’t have a lot of money to spend on Christmas because of my Father but I also know she always made Christmas special for me and my brothers. I told her you always seemed to come up with the money to buy each of us the main gift that we wanted for Christmas and I know it was you that bought the gifts because at my age now we both know that there was no Santa Claus. We both laughed because my Mom will still not admit to me that there is no Santa Claus. She says to me that she never bought anything because she never had the money to so it must have been Santa that brought the gifts for us.
To this day I still don’t know how she managed to come up with the money, the only thing I can figure is that she saved whatever she could every week all year long just to give us the best Christmas she could and that included the food. The day before Christmas the cupboards and fridge were all but bare… I know, it sounds like another book or movie, but come Christmas Day our large dining room table was just too small to put all the food on. By the time we finished eating everybody always had a hard time leaving the table because our bellies were so full!
To me, those were very special Christmas’s, they were family Christmas's that will always hold a very special place in my heart. Sometimes on Christmas Eve when I am alone with my thoughts and just before I fall to sleep, I am magically transported back in time to those Christmas’s past. I wake in the morning knowing what I had experienced must have been a dream but to me it was the magic of Christmas.
It is my hope that you are experiencing that very same magic of Christmas right now, the magic of a "Family Christmas" so that one Christmas Eve many years from now you too will experience the magic of Christmas and be transported back in time to the very Christmas’s you are now experiencing.
Have a magical Christmas Day Amy that will be remembered fondly forever. Kuwa na Siku ya Krismasi ya Kichawi ambayo itakumbukwa kwa furaha kwa milele.
Merry Christmas to you and your family and all those you love Amy. Furaha ya Krismasi kwako na familia yako na wote unampenda Amy.
May all your hopes and dreams find their way into reality and come true for you in 2018. Maana matumaini yako yote na ndoto zako zifikie njia ya kweli na kutimizwe kwako mwaka wa 2018.
Happy New Year to you and your family and to all those you love Amy. Mwaka Mpya wa Furaha kwako na familia yako na kwa wote unampenda Amy.
P.S.
One last thought on the year we have just lived through and more importantly all the years to come that we all hopefully live through without the world crashing in on itself; Most parents want to leave their children a better world to live in then they themselves lived in and I am no different. I really thought that when we crossed from the year 1999 to 2000 that the people of world would all come together as one and finally work towards making sure that every person on this planet lived a full and healthy life without the fear of global war or the fear of dying of starvation or dying because you don’t have proper medical care. I know it is a very na?ve way of thinking but it is truly how I felt.
In many ways I still feel the same and I still have faith in the people of the world that one day we will all come to our senses and put a stop to everything that is happening on this green and blue ball we call Earth and finally come together as one in the 21st century before it is too late.
I know Christmas should be a time of joy and happiness and it is for many people of the world but not for everybody and until it is a time of joy and happiness for everybody on the planet, we all risk losing everything we hold dear and close to our hearts. In that spirit Amy, I do wish that in your lifetime you will see real Peace on Earth and good will between all men and women because I fear it will not happen in my lifetime.
Najua Krismasi inapaswa kuwa wakati wa furaha na furaha na ni kwa watu wengi ulimwenguni lakini si kwa kila mtu na hata wakati wa furaha na furaha kwa kila mtu duniani, sisi sote tunajiharibu kupoteza kila kitu tunachoshikilia wapenzi na karibu kwa mioyo yetu. Katika roho hiyo Amy, napenda kuwa katika maisha yako utaona Amani halisi duniani na mapenzi mema kati ya wanaume na wanawake wote kwa sababu mimi hofu haitatokea katika maisha yangu.
(Sometimes the translation is a little off from what is written in English but the main thought does translate even though different words are used)
Now that you have read this far, please take a few more minutes and listen to the song I have attached below, the lyrics echo what I have just wrote above. Just click on the link. The link below may not work here on Linked In but if you copy and paste the address below it will play the song on You Tube.