Lots of wishes from Greece for a Happy Holiday Season and a Merry and Prosperous 1998.Thank you for the music, which has been a lifeline to many of us throughout these years. May your unique talent in songwriting keep shining through and I sure hope we get a chance to see you performing in our neighbourhood during 1998.
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season''s here.
Then he''s thinking more of others than
he''s thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy
worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any
other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him, he
comes close to the sublime.
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: Why this is Christmas Day!
Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant's trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath,
And surface pleasure, but beneath,
The childish glamour, let us find Nourishment for soul and mind.
Let us follow kinder ways Through our teeming human maze, And help the age of peace to come From a Dreamer's martyrdom.
