The Mountain Times
By Brooke Geery
Struggling to find the perfect gift for that hard-to-please friend or family member? May we suggest the gift of reading? We have teamed up with Phoenix Books in Rutland to compile a list of books either about Vermont, or written here, to help give you some ideas.
“Prisoner of Hope” by Yvonne Daley
The morning after the 2016 election, after a nearly 20-year hiatus from writing poetry, the award-winning journalist Yvonne Daley awoke to a poem already forming in her brain. In the intervening years, poetry has been her outlet and her solace as she has expressed her sorrow and disillusionment while seeking comfort in the power of love, nature and hope. Daley lives in Rutland with her husband, the writer Chuck Clarino, and two Maltese dogs.
With great powder comes great responsibility.
I sleigh all day.
Skate like no one is watching.
I m great at après-ski. Skiing, not so much.
Winter activities are the best, to sleigh the least.
I definitely peaked today.
It s time to rise and glide.
Winter Instagram Captions Inspired By Movies SlavicaGetty Images I planned out our whole day. First, we ll make snow angels for two hours, then we ll go ice skating, then we ll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookie dough as fast as we can, and then we ll snuggle.
Elf If you ask me, the miracle isn t how each snowflake is perfectly formed. The real winter miracle is what can happen afterward.
No matter your religious beliefs, come December it s hard to escape malls decorated with bells and trees, peppermint and gingerbread coffee drinks at chain shops, and radio stations that switch to 24/7 Christmas tunes.
But amid the holiday hysteria, we d like to remind you of one very cool fact about Christmas music namely, that some of our most beloved yuletide tunes were penned by songwriters of the Jewish faith.
In the first half of the 20th century, the music industry was one of the few fields where non-Christians weren t discriminated against at least, not as much as in other fields. The Jewish contribution to the modern Christmas canon is songs about the secular (but no less important) parts of the holiday: family, friends, and the joy of the season. The following songs, all written by Jews, are not just celebrations of the most unifying parts of the holiday season but a triumph of the American melting-pot immigrant experience. (And by the way, the worst Christmas song