[stylist] stylist Digest, Vol 140, Issue 10

Fri Dec 25 03:13:23 UTC 2015

The one we used to put on the top of our tree when I was growing up had a cone-shaped plastic "body" covered with a lacy dress and cloth wings and I think it was a styrofoam ball head with that fake hair stuff.
My mother has angels of all different sorts and makes on her tree these days.

Barbara Hammel

> On Dec 24, 2015, at 08:13, Jennifer Applegate via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hello all,
> What is your experience with angel ornaments? Do you put one on your
> Christmas tree? Have you seen or touched an angel ornament? We put crystal
> angel ornaments on our Christmas tree.
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>   1. Re: The Angel Lady poem (Barbara HAMMEL)
>   2. book information (Sarah)
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> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:44:17 -0600
> From: Barbara HAMMEL <poetlori8 at msn.com>
> To: Writers' Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Jennifer Applegate <jlastar at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [stylist] The Angel Lady poem
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> For one thing, the rhyme and meter of this poem sing to my heart. I also
> like that this is a story. 
> 
> Barbara Hammel
> 
>>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 09:40, Jennifer Applegate via stylist
>> <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Bob Lazzar-atwood The Angel Lady
>> 
>> She was called the Angel Lady for the ornaments she made,
>> 
>> She carved them out of scraps of fir and pine,
>> 
>> They echoed a belief she held from which she never strayed,
>> 
>> That angels are around us all the time.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> She first received her calling with a heart consumed by grief,
>> 
>> The year her loving husband passed away,
>> 
>> She found that carving offered her a measure of relief
>> 
>> And it brought a sense of purpose to her day. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> And then when Christmas came with all the memories it brings,
>> 
>> And clouds of sadness fell upon her heart,
>> 
>> She carved her husband's likeness with a pair of angel wings,
>> 
>> And magically the clouds began to part. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> She fixed it with a piece of string and hung it on the tree,
>> 
>> He always loved the smell of fresh cut fir,
>> 
>> And when she sat beside the tree to carve a bit or read,
>> 
>> She felt his loving presence close to her.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> When others saw the ornament, her neighbors and her friends,
>> 
>> They marveled at how lifelike it appeared,
>> 
>> They begged her to consider carving ornaments for them
>> 
>> Of loved ones they had lost throughout the years.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> And so her mission started and her reputation spread,
>> 
>> As orders came from cities far and (wide),
>> 
>> From (people) who were seeking some remembrance of their dead,
>> 
>> And comfort from the pain they felt inside.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The children were the hardest and it often made her weep,
>> 
>> To carve their childish features in the pine,
>> 
>> But late at night a voice would reassure her in her sleep
>> 
>> That angels were around them all the time.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> And one day she received a special letter in her box
>> 
>> From a boy whose family dog had passed away,
>> 
>> She thought about it briefly and then asked herself "why not?" 
>> 
>> And she started carving pets that very (day). (NDND rhyme)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For twenty years she carved until her hands were old and tired
>> 
>> And all her youthful energy was (gone),
>> 
>> But her belief in angels always made her feel inspired
>> 
>> And helped her find the strength to carry on.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> And then one Christmas day a neighbor found her in her chair,
>> 
>> Her heart no longer sounding its commands,
>> 
>> With shavings all around her, in her clothing and her hair,
>> 
>> Her carving blade still nestled in her hand.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> And as the medics came and slowly wheeled her to the door,
>> 
>> Her grieving friends were too distraught to see,
>> 
>> The photograph that (rested right beside her on the floor
>> 
>> Or the (newest little) angel (describes angel) on the tree. (SGSG 
>> rhyme)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It hung there by her husbands like two birds upon a limb,
>> 
>> A (woman) carved in (wood) (still) (wet with) stain,
>> 
>> Her head was turned and she was smiling lovingly at him,
>> 
>> And he was looking back at her the same.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Like all the other angels she had carved throughout her days,
>> 
>> The image was so real it chilled the spine,
>> 
>> And engraved upon the bottom was this very simple phrase,
>> 
>> "Angels are around us all the time."
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:09:13 -0600
> From: Sarah <sarahandfamily at live.com>
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [stylist] book information
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>   I am writing a series of books that take place in the Texas Panhandle,
> which is where I live. The names of the towns are different. They are
> Christian fiction and romance novels. The first book in the series is A Song
> in the Heart. I'm not great at writing the descriptions of the books I
> write.  Here is the description of the book that was just released. 
> Kade Blackwater needs a career change. Ashley Cantrell is a divorced mother
> of two waiting for God to bring the right man into her life. Will Kade and
> Ashley srust God to write their love song? 
>     Sarah Harris    
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> Sent from my U2 
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