Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2015! (Vol. 5, No. 14)

May the blessing of light be on you—

light without and light within.

May the blessed sunlight shine on you

and warm your heart

till it glows like a great peat fire.

Not that we now know what "a great peat fire" is - as we are not Irish and live in the 21st century... 

But, whether we know what we are doing, or not, we will "muddle through somehow...." 

to quote another great song... so... 

Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

And once you do, enjoy some Christmas carols, in Polish and English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo4xJ9iFE-c (Wsrod nocnej ciszy - Poznanskie Slowiki)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-OXruY5Gx8 (Lulajze Jezuniu - Anna German)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWI-EoTfu20 (Have yourself a very Merry Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald)

With some Chopin, of course:

Yundi Li: Chopin's Scherzo in B Minor, Op. 20

Idil Biret: Chopin's Scherzo in B Minor, Op. 20

Vladimir Horowitz: Fragment with Lulajze Jezuniu from the Scherzo

Novi Singers (Jazz Arrangement): Lulajze Jezuniu fragment from the Scherzo

Maja