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#12 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Make a Wish
I certainly do. Whenever I see a falling star. At fairy fountains (you need to throw in something shiny in exchange, so always keep a couple of polished coins in your pocket). When I pass beneath a rainbow. Some of these things happen to appear unexpectedly, therefore it’s best to have a range of ready… Read more
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#11 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Let’s Go for a Walk?
There’s something very nostalgic about going for a walk. Before everybody dashed off to fancy weekends and exotic past time adventures, people simply used to go for a walk. Going for a walk has no purpose other than going for a walk, no aim really and you could just as well sit on the sofa… Read more
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#10 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Grittibenzen
I often think how delicious the small things tasted before this our world got so saturated with everything ready at all times. Small things baked in a kitchen at home. The smell of warm milk and yeast and dough rising in a corner of the wood fired stove. How delicious the brioches straight from the… Read more
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#9 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Shine a Light
It’s the sight through a window on a wintry garden on a wintry afternoon, just about when night falls, for night falls early in winter. It’s a longing, like the song of memories heard from a distant room, faintly, raising and falling. So very nostalgic. I love to place candles in the windows at the… Read more
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#8 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – The Advent Wreath
In the old days, you would make wreaths, because they are beautiful, and because they are a symbol of the infinite and everlasting goodness of the divine. Where I come from, people would make wreaths throughout the year and hang them on doors and entrances, to guard from evil spirits. The advent wreath is a… Read more
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#7 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Making presents
It’s difficult, in a world of overwhelm and too much stuff, to make meaningful gifts. And I’m not the type who likes to make promises through gifts, like a voucher for something that may or may not happen in the distant future. Therefore I insist, that everybody gets a little something, and that it’s nicely… Read more