You want to have a "green" (ecological) Christmas, but you’d also like to have a tree that doesn’t need to be watered or have its needles vacuumed up from the floor. Also, isn’t it UNecological to cut down trees to decorate every year?
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It is a late hour. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I sit listening to Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise sung by Anna Moffo, which I would listen to on nights when I felt that the visitors were coming. They would cast such a spell over me on those nights, with their strangeness and their longing. They seemed far from home, but not physically; rather, from a home that is deep in the heart. They were seekers, looking for something they had lost, which was why, after my initial disquiet, I felt such a closeness to them.
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There was a mistletoe shortage this year–Does this mean there were fewer KISSES this Christmas? Scientists can’t tell us if hanging the plant above a doorway really does inspire love, but they do know the history behind this seasonal plant.

Mistletoe is found mainly in tropical or temperate areas. Its name refers a species of flowering parasitic plants. There are some 1,300 species of mistletoe worldwide. Most of the mistletoe sold in the US comes from Texas, a state that had the worst drought in its history this year.
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First, Whitley Strieber reads the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke, then Anne Strieber offers her comments on the season. Then Whitley returns with another wildly hilarious Christmas story from his boyhood. All we can say about this one is that it’s proof that guardian angels are real, otherwise Whitley would no longer be with us!

Merry Christmas to all of you from me, Al Harlow, from Anne and Whitley Strieber, from Nikki Fox, James Beeson, Daniel Stegall, our announcers Ted Alexander and Brian Arnold and the whole Dreamland Team!
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