This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 23, 2019

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Christmas kept coming around because it had good reasons for coming around, and it was hard even if you had little not to be a little bit happy.”

— Larry Brown, Merry Christmas, Scotty

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About Deborah Fagan Carpenter

The creative and professional life of Deborah Fagan Carpenter has taken many directions: visual merchandiser, decorator, potter, sculptor, modern expressionist painter, photographer, and freelance feature writer. As Contributing Editor at PorchScene, her contributions are fueled by her love of all things beautiful, interesting, edible, and Southern.
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2 Responses to This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 23, 2019

  1. Robert Kittrell says:
    December 23, 2019 at 6:19 PM

    Thanks for the quote. Are you familiar with John Henry Falk’s “Christmas Story”, a brilliant tale about a family who does not have much, sharing with a neighbor family who has even less. For many years the story played annually on NPR.

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