The Winter Holidays Are Here

As December has just knocked at our doors, I am thinking of my family and friends, of all the ones who have been close to me in this year, 2009. It is that special month when memories are parading in front of my eyes, smiles are being remembered, bouts of laughter are echoing once again in my ears, and the beauty of living life is full fledged in its splendor and amazement. How can I not be thankful for what I have been given? Tomorrow, every tomorrow is a blessing in itself. Yesterday, even if it is gone, still caries the perfume of its events into the present time. And NOW with its silver bell announces the power of life in the superb present. My guardian angels welcomed my Mom among themselves on the first of Jan of this year, and even if God's presence has been denied, questioned, and judged because of its merciless acts, now at Christmas, I believe in the power of a boundless love, of a transcendental soul, and of a limitless presence. I feel the light wherever I go, I feel the touch in whatever I do, and I believe in a better world, in a flawless human link.
To celebrate life is to live life, so my dear ones let’s be together under the mistletoe, raising our glasses in the honor of friendship because in the end, it's not the years in our life that count, but it's the life in our years.
Bertrand Russell once said:

“Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of people.
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living."

Let’s be together and celebrate the beauty of life, this Friday, Dec 4, 2009, at Café Roma in Beverly Hills. Let’s create more unforgettable moments, for, if there is only one life to live, I will make sure that I have used it all.