[Newsletter]: Do It December! |
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Hi Friend! Ho Ho Ho, it's Santa Season! A personal fave time of the year for me. I hope you enjoy it safely and happily while taking in all the magic that this season brings; especially singing 🎶Here Comes Santa Claus🎶 ('cause I know you do!) In the meantime, here comes the final 2022 edition of: |
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What makes us individuals is that each of us value and prioritize needs in different ways, and each of us have varied beliefs about what it means to meet those needs. This is what becomes the driving force behind why we do what we do, and determines the direction of our lives. |
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You'll never be bored when you try something new. There's really no limit to what you can do. ~ Dr. Seuss |
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Pupdate And this guy says "Scooby-dooby-do" for the next 24 days as he enjoys his Doggy Advent Calendar! #bauerboss |
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~ Family Matters ~ Christmas isn't just a season. It's a feeling! May you never be too old To search the skies On Christmas Eve ... |
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Deerdra's Droll 🤣 How much does it cost to fly Santa’s sleigh? About eight bucks, nine during bad weather. |
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An important message from Deerdra's desk: I'd like to share a story with you. It's about my ancestry. My family is famous - the Rudolph type of famous. Ya, that one. The deer who was different; kinda like me. Rudolph's had a life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. He started from humble beginnings. I bet you'll have a new appreciation for Rudolph and this Christmas classis after reading how it all started, and why he made history, and IS history! |
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As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara. One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. |
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But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book.
In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire.
Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune.
Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.” |
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You may think of Nike, when you hear the words "Just Do It", and while they built a successful brand around 'doing it', I actually think Oprah is the inspiration for DO IT. |
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And, Dr. Seuss perfected DOING IT ... 100%. |
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Don't give up on this year. Keep fighting for the good. Keep showing up. Keep loving. Keep giving back. Keep being kind. Keep being brave. Keep caring. Keep trying new things. Keep showing grace. Keep on. This world needs you to believe in the good. Do good. (Adapted from Rachel Marie Martin) |
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Two good reasons to leave you smiling
Courtesy of Google searching |
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And, especially this month .... |
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It's time to enjoy some kids letters to Santa!
All courtesy of Google |
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Will you pay-it-forward? Please share this others who may want or need some 'goodies'. [Next Newsletter: Free To Be In 2023!] **Oh Crap! Wait!** Did this email arrive in your promotions folder? Or (gasp) considered spam or junk? If so, (I say "crap"😂) Please do me a favour and add "debanddeerdra.com" as a safe email address and/or move this email into your "Primary" folder so the cyberspace fairies allow next month's email to arrive in your real inbox, not spam, nor junk, or promotions! |
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