![]() ![]() I think Grace Fallow Norton, born in Northfield, Minnesota in 1876, provides an answer in this poem from 1914. What propels us, indeed, compels us to keep going, even when it's so hard to make sense of loss? These hardships make me wonder how we - the living - make sense of life, despite this tragic world. On a personal note, I lost three influential women and role-models in my life: my grandmother, my great-aunt, and my godmother. This year, I surely read over a hundred Christmas and winter poems looking for just the thing I wanted to say to friends and family in 2012 - a year which, for the United States, brought divisive politics, devastating natural disasters, and tragic shootings. Since 2001, I've been writing an annual carol to send in my family's Christmas card - a family tradition begun by my great-grandfather Bates Burt in 1922, and passed through my great uncle Alfred Burt. Performed by Vicki Peters (soloist on Let's Have a Merry Song Tonight), Laura Krider (soloist on While All the Earth Was Dark and Dreary), Abbie Betinis, and J. The Mirthful Heart (by Abbie Burt Betinis) Interview with Abbie Betinis on The Mirthful Heart While All the Earth Was Dark and Dreary (B. ![]() Interview on the Burt Family Carol tradition Let's Have a Merry Song Tonight (by Bates Burt) ![]()
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