The Dassler Effect

New Year’s Musings and A Christmas Carol Results!

Neil E. Das — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:11:52 +0000

I sit typing in San Antonio, Texas, still in the Central Time Zone of the United States, and wait for the New Year and all I can do is think of past. An hour earlier an aunt from Pakistan calls, recounting to me how they still kept the Hogmanay feast, in a little Scottish mission school in Pakistan, and I am taken back. We decide to watch the Karate Kid tonight as a family. And I am taken back. My sister-in-law remembers wanting to be Ali; I wanted to be Daniel. Johnny Lawrence still sweeps the leg and Daniel still arches in the Crane position and delivers the decisive blow. My little, 8-year-old niece spontaneously bursts into applause, and the magic still works. And that I suppose is an apt enough image of the transfer between years, the old transferred to the new.

But you are not reading this post to hear about my New Year’s musings. The results for A Christmas Carol Photo Contest are in and here you go.

Now, outside the firecrackers are going off, echoing crackers in our kitchen a few minutes ago, and it is a festive start to 2010, indeed. May each of you be richly blessed by God in the coming year and have peace and hope.

Fire and Ice

Neil E. Das — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:55:10 +0000

Beware the Dark Side

Neil E. Das — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:08:54 +0000

Ere the Winter Storms Begin

Neil E. Das — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:35:10 +0000

“Always Winter and Never Christmas”

Neil E. Das — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:53:00 +0000

Winter Thistle

Neil E. Das — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:54:28 +0000

Sparrow in Winter

Neil E. Das — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:35:08 +0000

A Christmas Carol Photo Contest: Updated and Alphabetized

Neil E. Das — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:12:46 +0000

Well, between forgetting to add several images and opening the contest for another day, there are 11 new entries on the contest page as follows. Check them out!!! Hopefully I have gotten my alphabetizing right this time.

And Glory Shone Around
Frightful
Happy Xmas
I Heard the Bells
I, Said the Donkey
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Mary Was That Mother Mild
O Christmas Tree I
O Christmas Tree II
Oh, What Fun it is to Ride
Tiny Tots With Their Eyes All Aglow

Mary’s Boy Child

Neil E. Das — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:21:15 +0000

A Second Chance – A Christmas Carol Photo Contest

Neil E. Das — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:01:00 +0000

Dear Readers, in light of the fact that I forgot to include several pictures that had been submitted and that it is a busy Christmas season, I am going to reopen the contest until midnight tomorrow, Sunday, December, 20th. So, if you just missed the deadline, You have one more chance I will put the extra entries up tomorrow night.

Need more inspiration, check out the contest, or see the image from my brother, Virgil, below.