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    Seven Carols, Seven Gifts: Christmas Stories for All Ages
    Seven Carols, Seven Gifts: Christmas Stories for All Ages
    Seven Carols, Seven Gifts: Christmas Stories for All Ages
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    Seven Carols, Seven Gifts: Christmas Stories for All Ages

    By Drew Bacigalupa

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    Collected for the first time, these prize-winning Christmas tales—carols—of Drew Bacigalupa range in time and place from mid-20th century to the new millennium, from remote mountain villages in New Mexico to the sophisticated neighborhoods of Rome, from children in country fields or on city streets to young soldiers at combat areas, to parents and grandparents at home or abroad. Whether in the United States, Mexico, England, France or Italy, the diverse peoples of these brief but luminous stories share the joy—and sometimes apprehension—we’ve all known as winter solstice heralds the approach of Christmas. Uniting all is the theme of renewal, the promise of longer days and return of the sun, and our uniquely individual gifts which brighten The Child in each of us. The illustrations are from original works by Bacigalupa—his paintings, drawings, ceramics and sculptures, testament to the artist/writer’s work in many media, his conviction that all the arts are essentially communication. Heavily influenced by Renaissance Man following graduate studies at “L’Accademia di Belli Arti” in Florence, he frequently refers to the journals and poems of sculptor/painter Michelangelo and the notebooks and dissertations of painter/sculptor/inventor Leonardo as examples of men who employed whatever medium was best suited to communicate differing concepts demanding expression. Though a resident of Santa Fe since 1954 and one who loves the American Southwest, DREW BACIGALUPA is an inveterate traveler whose works have doggedly resisted regionalism. His published books include the World War II novel And Come to Dust, set in Belgium and Germany; “Since My Last Confession,” a spiritual journey and love story which follows the protagonist throughout the U.S. and across Europe; “Journal of an Itinerant Artist,” essays which roam the globe and embrace peoples of ethnic diversity. His stories, features and articles have appeared in numerous national newspapers and periodicals in this country and—in translation—in Italy. He first gained encouragement as a writer at the age of ten by winning a prize with an adventure story submitted to a writing contest in his hometown’s newspaper “The Baltimore Sun.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSunstone Press
    Release dateSep 15, 2012
    ISBN9781611391343
    Seven Carols, Seven Gifts: Christmas Stories for All Ages
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    Drew Bacigalupa

    Artist/Writer, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Graduate Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; post-graduate work L'Accademia di Belli Arti, Florence, Italy. Married, 5 children. Extensive travels, work and study abroad, paintings and sculpture private collections, public installations USA and Italy. Published works include novels, children's books, collections of essays and short stories, newspaper columns and features.

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      Seven Carols, Seven Gifts - Drew Bacigalupa

      CLARE ... AND THE MAGI

      "But now, as I hold Clare’s card, its bright image prompts me to utter the word aloud—Magi."

      CLARE ... AND THE MAGI

      Our mail is always heavy, but in the few weeks before Christmas it is staggering. Season’s greetings come in by the dozens, from all over the world, many from old friends we haven’t seen in a quarter century. Cards arrive from mail-order clients we’ve never met, or tourists who were in our gallery only once; from people we’ve known briefly at national workshops and conventions, or met on vacations. Forgetful of names, I must ask my wife: Who is this, when was that, do we know him?

      The cards are corralled in a huge wooden bowl, and each day they pile higher, eventually spilling over. Some of the signatures on them remain faceless to me, but names have become familiar through yearly repetition. A few are from my army buddies and wartime friends, their names on cards surrounded by those of total strangers—wives and children, grandchildren.

      I sometimes think the enormous trough of cards is like a disorganized notebook for an epic Tolstoian novel. Many of the greetings include lengthy notes and long newsletters advising us of births and deaths, marriages and divorces, professional advances or setbacks, relocations and travel. Children we’ve never met have grown up on those scribbled pages.

      We are always too busy before Christmas to peruse the cards at leisure. But in those rare still and quiet moments, perhaps early morning while the rest of the family sleeps, one of us will pause before that towering mound and turn over the cards until one demands attention.

      Here is Clare’s, as brief and taciturn as ever. I’m aware of the discipline and effort required of him to write anything. So much easier to neglect correspondence and hope our paths will cross again—against the bar at O’Hare probably, between planes in Chicago.

      We spent a memorable pre-Christmas week together in ’44 at Southampton, though neither of us can lay claim to having seen that great port. We arrived on troop trucks in dark and fog and were herded inside a public park which had been converted into a fenced, guarded, tented debarkation area for France. Blackout and persistent fog prevented us from seeing anything beyond a few yards. We could hear trams and, somewhere outside the perimeters of the park, shoppers, bells, broadcasts of Christmas music. Even daylight hours, locked in fog, gave us no glimpse of anything beyond our

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