Too Many People Grow Up

"Children's games are hardly games."

Montaigne - Essays

Like Those of Castile...

"A black cat among roses (...)
The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume..."

Amy Lowell

Miscellaneous: The Architecture of Red

"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

John Ruskin

Like Bells and Lights and Tinsel

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse..."

Clement Clarke Moore