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My first born granddaughter, Kaylin Marie, started drawing pictures when she was very young.  In 2002 Kaylin decided to draw a picture of a Christmas tree for her grandmother Marcia.  Somehow, the Christmas tree became an angel blowing a horn. I was amazed that a seven-year-old could make the Angel’s cheek look like it was puffed out, blowing the horn. I borrowed the drawing from Marcia and used it to make my first Angel Christmas card.   Every year after that I would ask Kaylin to draw an angel to use for my Christmas Angel card. 

Five years later Kaylin started with a photo of her younger sister Christen and my son’s daughter Anna as a basis for the angel card.  She added some wings and halos and that was the Angel Card 2007.  After that Kaylin decided to retire from the task. The next year Christen Irene drew her first angel.  She was only five years old. Christen has drawn 12 more Christmas Angels since then.  The comparison of her very first angel and the one that she drew in 2020 is amazing.

This summer Kaylin and Christen lost their Grandma Marcia to cancer.  2021 is the twentieth Angel Card and in honor of Grandma Marcia I will be using the very first angel drawing for my Angel Card.  I am so grateful that Marcia shared  Kaylin Marie’s artistic creation with myself so that I could share it with you.    

The St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra will be performing their St. Cloud Holiday Fantasy concert tomorrow at 3pm. All of the symphony orchestra concerts are performed in Ritsche Auditorium at St. Cloud State University. Tickets are available at www.stcloudsymphony.com or at the door.  You will need proof of vaccination and you will need to wear a mask. 

Also, The George Maurer Group annual Christmas Show is at The Paramount Theater this coming Monday at 7:30. I hope to see you there also.  Tickets are available at www.paramountarts.org  

“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”  Leonard Cohen