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Softly falls the snow – Leise rieselt der Schnee… Thus begins a traditional Austrian Christmas song. How beautifully it captures the magic of this season! Softly falling snow: a perfect symbol for the one challenge that is left to us as the old year is ending: "letting go." We can't keep it, we can't improve it any more. But we can still attempt a soft landing, as it were.

So let it go in peace!

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December, 2005

Mountain Christmas: Adelboden, Bernese Oberland

„Leise rieselt der Schnee,
still und starr liegt der See,
weihnachtlich glänzet der Wald:
Freue dich, Christkind kommt bald!

In den Herzen wirds warm,
still schweigt Kummer und Harm,
Sorge des Lebens verhallt:

Freue dich, Christkind kommt bald!”

Eduard Ebel, 1839-1905

(Snow falls softly at night,
Stars o'er the lake shine so bright,
The forest reflects holy light,
The Christchild is coming tonight!

Hearts of mankind are warm,
Tonight, all sorrow is gone,
From heaven there shines a great light,
The Christchild is coming tonight)

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Last updated 3 Dec 2005 (first published 1 Dec 2005)
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