The decorations are up! @WhiteHouse is ready to celebrate! Wishing you a Merry Christmas & joyous holiday season! pic.twitter.com/d6ZuyeFvrw
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) November 27, 2017
The decorations are up! @WhiteHouse is ready to celebrate! Wishing you a Merry Christmas & joyous holiday season! pic.twitter.com/d6ZuyeFvrw
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) November 27, 2017
THE MOST OF IT by Robert Frost
He thought he kept the universe alone;
For all the voice in answer he could wake
Was but the mocking echo of his own
From some tree-hidden cliff across the lake.
Some morning from the boulder-broken beach
He would cry out on life, that what it wants
Is not its own love back in copy speech,
But counter-love, original response.
And nothing ever came of what he cried
Unless it was the embodiment that crashed
In the cliff’s talus on the other side,
And then in the far distant water splashed,
But after a time allowed for it to swim,
Instead of proving human when it neared
And someone else additional to him,
As a great buck it powerfully appeared,
Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,
And landed pouring like a waterfall,
And stumbled through the rocks with horny tread,
And forced the underbrush–and that was all.
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Beneath the Aegean
When all Earth’s seas shall Levitate,
Dark shawled within the skies,
Upon our eyes will Starfish dance
Their waltz of Blind surprise.
The sun will Rise within wine Dark
As Argonauts imbibed,
Whose drunken arms embrace that sleep
Where Phaeton’s horses Stride.
Upon all of Earth’s wind-sanded shores,
As dolphins Learn to soar,
All we once were on the land
Shall be sealed behind the door
Of Ivory and Chastened Gold,
That the Mystery solved complete
Shall never til the seas’ Long fall
Wake mariners from their sleep.
— Van der Leun
Your Say
Song of Myself
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
— The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
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No Mao ornament. LMAO. What a difference an election makes.
I’ve been dreaming of a white Christmas.
TGTW – Thank God Trump Won
The Trump family brings dignity and grace back to the White House. The most recent occupants, unable to spell the word ‘class,’ turned it into a combination McDonalds and whorehouse.
A beautiful display – I hope this makes for a long and happy memory.
It is wonderful to have a real lady in the White House again.
What lovely decorations! Precursors of the Mao ornament on the Obama tree, some very unique ornaments were included, lest we forget, by Hillary Clinton on the Blue Room tree. Here, Salon debunks that “conspiracy theory.”
https://www.salon.com/2016/10/24/the-clinton-bs-files-hillary-didnt-decorate-the-white-house-christmas-tree-with-condoms-and-syringes/
The most telling lines in the article are these:
“But expect there to be some kind of Christmas tree-related controversy to be ginned up in 2017, when the Clintons are once again tasked with decorating the Blue Room Christmas tree — presumably with Bill instead of Hillary at the helm this time”
and
“Rudolph only knows what they’ll come up with when Santa comes for a second Clinton administration.”
I guess Santa really does know who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. Thank you, Santa.
Oh my, Christianity again! I love it – the multiculturalism has, at least for the short term, has been purged. This is a giant step in the right direction. The joy that comes from our cultural resurgance literally brings tears to my eyes.
Multiculturalism?
If you are a believing Christian, you would know that Jesus Christ was born for all men, for all times. His message, and the mission of his disciples and later apostles of Christ was to spread the Good News to all men, to all nations.
He was born as the Light of the World. To lift up the hearts and spirits of all men and women everywhere, for all time. Through His life, death and resurrection, are we all saved.
The Good News. The best news for all us.
Christianity can be (and has been) integrated into many different cultures – except of course where outlawed. The most glaring hypocrisy to me in the whole “multiculturalism is great” claim is that we must include people from “cultures” which hate/persecute Christians and who would never allow the same thing in their home culture. They want no part of multiculturalism.
Good to see some class and grace again.
However, because some of the Confucian Rectification of Names and all that, one minor nitpick:
“2017 HOLIDAY Decorations at the White House” — The Donald needs to drill down and find the flunky who typed that and eject zhir ass outta there.
The most Beautiful First Lady EVER!! Jackie Kennedy would be in second place but she is nothing compared to Melania !!!!
A breathtaking change from having a First Lady who looked like she played college football.
What, no vajay-jay or hijab diversity ornaments?
Thank God for President Trump.
MAGA
Our First Lady is genuine. No artifice. She’s brought such beauty, dignity, and grace to the White House. The crystalline decor would have been hailed as FABULOUS if the previous FLOTUS had done it.
I just looked at the Melania Trump Twitter page. It’s infested with twittertrolls. What nasty, miserable people these leftists are. Not a scintilla of grace amongst them.
JWM
Real, honest to God Human Beings in the White House. Fantastic!
Make Christmas Great Again!
Hello Mr. Gass
She is absolutely Heaven Sent (as well as her husband on a different Mission) God Bless America.
Every day I give thanks that we are not enduring a 4-year Hillary presidency. Thank you, President Trump, for finally bringing some class and muscle to the White House. I am hoping for more great things in the next 3 years.
I cried a bit after seeing this brief film. A creche in the People’s House. With bonus grace, class, style, and restraint. All I’ve wanted for years is for America to turn, even the tiniest bit, in the right direction. Here is the evidence that is happening, and God be praised for it! Melania, thank you a thousand times. You are as beautiful inside as out.
Melania’s creche is the exact same one that adorned the East Room during every year of the Obama administration.
From the 2015 White House archives (pick any year you like from https://obamawhitehousearchives.gov/the-press-office):
“A long-standing holiday tradition—the White House crèche—graces this room. The nativity scene made of terra cotta and intricately carved wood was fashioned in Naples, Italy in the eighteenth century. Donated to the White House in the 1960s, this piece has sat in the East Room for the holidays for more than forty-five years, spanning nine administrations.”
Plenty of substantive criticism to made of Obama, why believe easily disproved lies?
Scratch that question, I already have the answer.
You’re Trump voters.
Melania ENDURED the fell reign of Communism in her native Slovenia.
Her labors to make the WH a visually attractive Christian bastion are most admirable.
Make Advent Gracious Again (MAGA)!