So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the seventy-first edition. Previous editions can be found on the blog's Newsletter page. I send it out weekly, so if you don't get my email on Saturday morning, please let me know! (Check your junk and spam folders too.) My five latest posts are at the end of this newsletter, latest first. *** I have two poems this week for your holiday pleasure, or as a distraction from the raging storm outside your door. We actually had to cover the plants and bring our potted plants in this evening, since the weather is forecast to go into the 20's Fahrenheit tonight. I don't think that happened at all, last year. Fingers crossed that we Florida winter-novices make it through this rare coldsnap without frostbite! The upside of the cold weather is that the camellias and roses seem to love it. Great big mops of red petals are dripping from a seven foot high camellia I see everyday. It's like Christmas on a stem. My older poem Camellia gives you an idea of its life cycle. This week my new poems are Bones of Christmas and A Beastly Quorum. Bones is a look at the way someone might view Christmas if it brought up feelings of depression or grief. A Beastly Quorum is my answer to the question: what would happen, if animals got hold of Robert's Rules of Order? The second poem, as you may have guessed, is rather sillier than the first. But it also calls to mind a somber local event, the Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida. Anyway, on this Christmas Eve morning, I wish you the best of holidays, whatever and whereever they may be, and I hope to see you again, by way of this newsletter, in the new year, if not sooner! If you'd like additional Christmas poems and writings full of all of the emotions of this time of year, check out my 2021 Holiday newsletter. Always happy to hear your thoughts! Greetings, Andrea *** If you haven't signed up for my newsletter yet, I hope you will consider doing so. And tell your friends! There's a blue signup form on every page. You can also follow my Twitter account, @AndreaLedew,where my posts often appear. This will give you an idea of just how much mischief I've been up to over the past five or six years. Thanks again for your continued readership and support. It means a lot to me. Have a great week! Andrea The links below will take you to the five most recent posts. The blue logo takes you to the homepage. The section on English Majors has the most recent stuff.

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