Christmas Comes to the Farm

By Bill Los

December 24, 2019

Bill Los offers a reflection from his farm, where he contemplates Christmas in the stillness of listening to the animals and reflects on what might be learnt in the stables.

The only Christmas tradition these animals in the old barn will get is one light bulb on for the whole night and the CBC radio with all its Christmas music, poems and stories Tomorrow, early on Christmas morning, when all is still dark, my wife and I will walk this winding path through the snow, amongst the trees and on past the woodpile and calf hutch to a barn where patient cattle will lay waiting, very oblivious to the fact that it is Christmas day I chuckle too at the fact that every year again I secretly hope that maybe this year it will really happen, but alas, I have never heard a word even though I’ve often been in the barn at midnight on Christmas Eve

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