The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year -- Linda Raedisch, Paperback Poetry Listening with compassion can solve

Listening with compassion can solve our most pressing issues--across global politics and interpersonal relationships and within our own hearts and minds

it's not like Fancy's parents would really make good on their threats of sending her back to Haiti

Using down-to-earth

strong ties in the community and at their church

But when stories can't be trusted

The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year -- Linda Raedisch, Paperback Poetry Listening with compassion can solve'Tis the Season for Witches, Elves, and a Legion of Ghosts Not so very long ago, Yuletide was as much a chilling season of ghosts and witches as it was a festival of goodwill. In The Old Magic of Christmas, you'll rub elbows with veiled spirits, learn the true perils of elves, and discover a bestiary of enchanted creatures. Rife with the more frightful characters from folklore and the season's most petulant ghosts, this book takes you on a spooky