December Reflections: Slippers

An excerpt (involving a slipper!) from my favourite Christmas book/poem, ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ by Dylan Thomas. I’ve a few different versions of the book but this one is still my favourite, with the simple woodcut illustrations by Ellen Raskin.

"Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-coloured snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steadily falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept." ♥