The Christmas season can prove to be a lonely one for many elderly folks. Christmas without family is like peanut butter without jelly, cold without snow, music without melody… A few weeks ago a group of teens and their families visited the Ridgewood Nursing Home, with the simple goal of bringing joy by way of song. Shuffling through the halls of Ridgewood it was clear that staff members had made great efforts to deck the home with Christmas cheer. There wasn’t a direction you could look without noticing one decoration or another. The general mood wasn’t one of loneliness or despair, the various tenants were all seemingly quite content. However, as the group of cheerful carolers paraded into their sight a fresh atmosphere of pure joy filled the air. It’s easy for us to take for granted the array of familiar Christmas tunes that we hear year after year, singing them can become just another festivity, but to those older men and women at the home they were a glimmering symbol of love.
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StandBOLD ~ Mike V.
by Mike Vance
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