On Christmas, we remember how our friend, Bill Tobin (NGP Photo), used to include this Christmas Tree every year on the Anchorage Times editorial page. We are delighted to carry on the tradition and reprint Bill's Christmas Tree below as a tribute to our great Alaska predecessors and as a commitment to honor and propagate and emulate their pioneering spirits.
This Eve
Of Christmas,
We Once Again
Decorate A Little
Tree To Say Thanks To
All Of You Who have Blessed
Us With Your Friendship Over
More years Than We Care To Count.
And
As These
Have Unfolded,
More And More We
Have Come To Realize
That The World Is Filled
More By Goodness Than It
Is By Evil, And That A Smile
Goes Much Farther Than A Frown.
We Are
Reminded That
It's Better To Light
One Little Candle Than
It Is To Curse The Darkness,
And That Mostly Has Been The
Mission Of This Little Corner Of The
Times For All These Years That We Have
Been Enriched By The Opportunity To Be
With Faithful Readers, Week After Week.
And
At Almost
Every Christmas
We Have Offered Here
The Holy Prayer Of St. Francis
Of Assisi, And With Joy We Do So
Again, In Hopes It Reflects Simple Ways
We Each Could Help Build A Better World:
Lord
Make Me
An Instrument Of
Your Peace. Where There
Is Hatred, Let Me Sow Love;
Where There Is Injury, Pardon;
Where There Is Doubt, Faith; Where
There Is Despair, Hope; Where There Is
Darkness, Light; And Where There Is Sadness,
Joy.
O Divine
Master, Grant
That I May Not So
Much Seek To Be Consoled
As To Console; To Be Understood
As To Understand; To Be Loved As To
Love; For It Is In Giving That We Receive;
It Is In Pardoning That We Are Pardoned, And
It Is In Dying That
We Are Born
To Eternal
Life.
– William J. Tobin
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