HAPPY NEW YEAR -- 2018

Balmy weather here in Southern California, but so many of my early memories of this holiday season were in snowy climes.   These two were favored vocalists ... Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme.

Sleigh Ride

That Holiday Feeling   

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve    

Happy Holiday

Let It Snow

Baby It's Cold Outside

HOLIDAY FEELING

That Holiday Feeling  lingers on with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme expressing those emotions in song here. 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

The season's festive occasions continue with a wish for a happy holiday from Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gome singing this delightful song written by Irving Berlin.  Arranged by Don Costa.   

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

My wish for you ... 

have a merry little Christmas .....

as Eydie Gorme sings solo this song written in 1943 by Hugh Martin (music) and Ralph Blane (lyrics) which she and Steve recorded in 1964 for their album, That Holiday Feeling.

HURRY HOME

Expect many of us are celebrating one or more of the several holidays we have this season.       Many family  members and friends are gathering together.  This year  I'm especially reminded of a need for peace and good will toward all. 

Here are a couple of popular entertainers I always enjoyed  Steve Lawrence and wife Eydie Gorme singing "Hurry Home for Christmas".
 

HOLIDAY GREETINGS 2011

May holiday celebrations bring your family much joy and pleasure with loved ones and friends whether they live near or distant.

Here's a classic Christmas song, "Sleigh Ride," sung by husband and wife, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme:

(Remember LPs?)


(From the 1965 LP: "Goodyear's Great Songs Of Christmas Album 5"
(Columbia Special Products CSP-238-S)

Technological communication systems today bring us close across the miles allowing an ease of frequent contact unlike any time before. We have simple cell phones ranging to the more complex smart phones like the iPhone and Androids, other digital devices. Small netbooks to larger laptops and desktop computers are in use. Email, instant messaging, texting, twittering -- social networks are popular. There are iPods and the latest iPad iteration with evolving competitive gadgetry, plus hundreds of thousands of applications. There's a never-ending steady stream of new digital creations to fascinate, intrigue, challenge, frustrate and confuse us.

I'm particularly enamored with Skype (quickly and easily downloaded free from the Internet) which allows real time interaction with picture and sound for conversations that enhance relationships with friends and family.

I've especially enjoyed Skyping this year since more loved ones are doing so, too. I was pleasantly surprised this week with contact from an older family member who has been able to add Skyping capability to life skills he has been gradually reacquiring since a life-threatening medical event years ago, coupled with subsequent medical issues, impeded his computer digital activities.

I've especially enjoyed keeping up in real time with Skype's audio and video of my grandson born early this year who I finally met this past fall. I traveled east for a delightful time rockin’, singin’, talkin’, readin’, and playin’ with him. I even shared some time with his parents! Meeting again with his other grandparents is always fun, too.

I'm really delighted to periodically see and talk with my grandson via Skype with his Dad providing technical assistance as the little one reaches for a keyboard or touch screen. I've been impressed with how Grandson attends to my face on the screen, may recognize my voice, and responds dialogue-like verbally with beginning sounds though they don't yet make intelligible words. I've been delighted to watch him in real time walking with the support of his push toy, grasping food bites that also can be smushed for finger painting on his table between bites, and his eventually cuddling at bedtime.

Just today, Christmas Eve, (when I'm writing this) I was treated to a video of Grandson now walking independently! Life has suddenly become even more interesting for his parents and their two cats as those of us who are parents know only too well.

Computers will be a given in my Grandson's life, just as television was for his parents. Neither technology existed in my young life except in the comic strips, fantasy and science fiction.

Wishing each of you a very Merry Christmas and most Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year!