The Bad Influence Speaks

12.29 Hot Lick: John Cena

I'm not a wrestling fan but I can't resist this guy.  He is HOT and just look at that smile.  I have dimple weakness, I know.

12.26 Friday Song: What a Wonderful World

Merry Christmas, y'all!

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
~Agnes M. Pharo

Let your day be filled with hope and love and the blessings of family.
 
Merry Christmas!

12.24 Hump Day Quote: Christmas Quotes

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
~ W. C. Jones

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
~Ralph Sockman

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.
~Kate L. Bosher

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.
~Charles Dana, New York Sun editorial 1897

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
~Calvin Coolige

Quotes selected from wisdomquotes.com

12.22 Hot Lick: David Beckham

12.19 Friday Song: Hard Candy Christmas

12.17 Hump Day Quote: Clara Ortega

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
-Clara Ortega