Muscato's Musings
Let's Focus on Important And Valuable Gifts This Holiday Season
Easton residents should consider what is important this holiday season.
About a year ago now I wrote this column – a Christmas and holiday seasons column – and early this morning as I put together and wrote one of a series of Christmas/holiday seasons columns I intend to write over the next few weeks, I felt compelled to go back to that column. I felt compelled to go back to that column in which I highlighted and excerpt the following passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, Gifts, published in 1844: Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own …
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