{"id":21118,"date":"2025-12-25T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=21118"},"modified":"2025-12-25T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:40:13","slug":"a-christmas-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=21118","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Noella Noelophile\u00ae<\/h6>\n
\"Christmas<\/a>

(Royalty-free image by Moris Oh<\/a> from Pixabay.)<\/p><\/div>\n

When I was five, the magic started.<\/p>\n

In our living room, a three-foot artificial tree appeared.\u00a0 \u00a0A one-dollar box of Shiny Brite ornaments (remember those?) looked like exotic candies, and made the tree seem to sparkle.<\/p>\n

So did the handcrafted angels with gauze wings, and the styrofoam Santa face with his red-ornament nose and cottony beard.\u00a0 As did the wax choirboy candles and glitter-snow covered Nativity scene beneath the tree.<\/p>\n

We didn’t have much money in my growing-up years.\u00a0 \u00a0But Christmas was always magical, with that tree and the ways my mom used her imagination to add stardust to December.<\/p>\n

She was doing exactly what her<\/em> mother had done, as she raised a family in the Depression.<\/p>\n

\"Small<\/a>

(Royalty-free image by Jason Goh<\/a> from Pixabay.)<\/p><\/div>\n

The magic continued with learning to craft decorations and change the way a room looked, from mundane to enchanted, with foil stars, greenery and lights.<\/p>\n

As a teenager, I loved spending Christmas Day at my favorite uncle’s house.\u00a0 He’d have a fire in the fireplace, votive candles lit all day long and all kinds of goodies–including cookies he’d spent weeks baking, before Christmas.<\/p>\n

And today, we decorate one ornament per night, every night in December until Christmas.\u00a0 By the time Christmas arrives, the house looks dusted with stardust.<\/p>\n

Who has made Christmas magical for you?\u00a0 For whom do you create magic?\u00a0 We all have the power to do that, with imagination, words and time.<\/p>\n

This Christmas morning, I wish you magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Noella Noelophile\u00ae When I was five, the magic started. In our living room, a three-foot artificial tree appeared.\u00a0 \u00a0A one-dollar box of Shiny Brite ornaments (remember those?) looked like exotic candies, and made the tree seem to sparkle. So … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37,1999],"class_list":["post-21118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations-and-observations","tag-christmas","tag-imagination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21127,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions\/21127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}