Sunday, December 21, 2008

Yes, River. There is a Santa Claus.




". .Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. . "

-Francis Pharcellus Church, Sept. 21, 1897

1 comment:

MEMAW MARTI said...

Her world just keeps getting bigger and bigger... Thanks so much for taking her to visit with Santa, He is going to be so very busy in a few days. She looks bemused...LOL