...a note from Christine...

     My brain is fuzzy today - an overload of details lately - but Sunday I will leave the office behind and immerse myself in music, Christmas shows, old friends in South Dakota, and time alone with Chris in the truck as we cover several thousands of miles.  I look forward to the change of pace and focus.
    This has been an incredible year of challenge, grace, effort, surrender, growth, creativity and friends.  Creating "Cry Love" was a wonderful way to say goodbye to 2005 and celebrating its release in January will be an equally perfect way to begin 2006. 
    We won't get to see my family this Christmas, but we are all still healthy and close, so there is much to be grateful for.  The beauty of marriage is that The Gage's truly are my family now and we will have some of them near. 
     Thank you to all - Joyful Holiday to all - and to all a goodnight.
     Christine

Christine, Linda, Susan, Rick
Christmas at the grandparent's in Niagara Falls (1959 maybe?)
 See why my dad called me "Pumpkin Head"?

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Quote of the Month
Act by not acting;
do by not doing.
Enjoy the plain and simple.
Find that greatness in the small.
Take care of difficult problems
while they are still easy;
Do easy things before they become too hard.
Tao Te Ching
written by Lao-Tzu

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...and a note from Chris...

     I get to spend time with my family this month, which is something that doesn't happen very often.  We grew up in South Dakota, and the 4 kids were spread out over 13 years, so that big brother Gary was already off to college at Iowa State before sister Patty started school.  For a short time my 3 siblings all lived in Denver, and I could see them all together (usually around a performance that I was doing in the area).  Gary and his wife Anne have since moved to South Carolina, and even though Mike and Patty live in Denver, we rarely get a chance to see them, although last year we had an exquisite picnic in the mountains together. 
     Best of all is that I get to see both my parents!  I'll spend time with my Mother during the South Dakota tour (she still lives in Pierre), and my Dad is coming with his wife Phyllis from Las Vegas, to meet up with sister Patty, her new husband Rob (we like him) and daughter Erin for Christmas!  I'll have two days to deck the halls, and I love to deck the halls.
     Merry Christmas, and enjoy your family.  
     Chris

Chris, Patty, Mike (no Gary) (Christmas 1966)