Christmas truce

"The Night Before Christmas and "The Shoemaker and the Elves." http://orlandparklibrary.evanced.info/eventsignup.asp?ID=23279&rts=&disptype=info&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=12/1/2016&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=ALL&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp= WHY: Enjoy some cheerful puppetry. WHERE: Orland Park Public Library: 14921 S. Ravinia Ave., Orland Park WHEN: 11 a.m.-noon Saturday, Dec. 3 Christmas in the Commons WHAT:

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday in October where you surround yourself with your loved ones; as well as eat enough food to hibernate all winter. However, Thanksgiving of 2003 was not what I expected. Around eleven in the morning my family and I arrived at my cousin Jessica’s house. I expected everyone there to be in a good mood; well I was wrong. The year of 2003 my family had lost six people. My grandma, uncle, great grandpa, and one of my cousins, everyone seemed a little empty. As the day

Every year at the Kauki tribe’s Christmas feast, the druids present all of the Kauki youth at the age of seventeen a gift that they think represents them individually. Today is the day that I will receive my gift. “Kelby, get your things! It is time to head to the mead hall for the feast!” yelled my mother. She seemed to be more anxious about my gift than I was. Probably because the gift that you receive at the feast is how the Druids predict your future based on your past. It will determine

Brian Nowak Foundations Final Essay Christmas Eve: A Dialogue on the Incarnation It was the night before Christmas, a quite winter night, the snow falling softly through the sky like a feather falling through air. Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Brian Nowak, were on a stroll though the lights in the neighborhood. The LePain’s left Brian in charge of the guests making sure nothing happen to them while they are out at a Christmas party. As the four of them arrive back at the house, the

My sister used to work most holidays, so we used to add Fake Thanksgiving and Fake Christmas to the calendar :) Any excuse to get together is a good one, right? Are you celebrating the-day-after-Christmas, too ? :) This week is a busy one. Today, I'm doing hot yoga for the first time. In preparation, I'm overhydrated. Thursday night I have to work the evening shift (5 pm - 10 pm) -- that

her as a rebel because she had a good heart and that’s all I cared about within people. Victoria was tall light skinned, her long curly hair was a flowing river, and was an athlete. Asonte, Victoria, and I decided to go to the Mall of Georgia for Christmas Eve to Spencer 2 hang out. Who would have thought a night of fun would led to Asonte and I to get arrested that night? Not myself! Every girl knows the dress up game, where you just try on an outfit and put it back afterwards because you don’t have

We celebrate Christmas holidays and Easter holidays. However, there is a third holiday, a third observance, a third sacred event that is just as central to our understanding of what it means to be a Christian and what it means to belong to the church. That third event is called Pentecost Sunday. This third great day in the Christian calendar is rooted in the story in Acts 2 and celebrates the day when the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles who were gathered in a room in Jerusalem. Before Pentecost

Typical. What falls underneath the term typical? When referring to my typical experience of the bible it isn’t one that would be typical to most people. At first my experience with the bible was one like many others. I grew up going to church learning the basic biblical knowledge that shaped my perspective of what the bible was all about. Growing up I was the awkward quiet kid at church, the kid who sat and listened but hardly ever the kid that was considered to be unique. As I got older I began

REI, an American retail corporation that sells sporting goods and outdoor recreation gear, has shocked the world of retail and made the decision to close all of its stores on Black Friday this year and pay its multitude of employees to “head outside”, according to REI’s President and CEO, Jerry Stritzke. The company is describing this decision as “a stand against the commercial madness that has characterized the day after Thanksgiving for at least a decade and a half”. While this decision comes with

Do you remember when I previously mentioned that Nana—the one pronounced Nan-na—creates stories in the present? Well, here’s one of my favorite stories to prove that point: It was a few days before the Christmas of 2015. Nana absolutely loves Walmart, so my mother decided to bring her shopping there to buy presents for her grandchildren with my sister and me. It was going to be one of our “good deeds” to put us into the holiday spirit. My mother is a fearful woman; the moment we started walking