Blanchard and Calhoun Real Estate invites you to track Santa Claus as he makes his wonderful journey all over the world. We can’t wait for Santa to visit all the good little girls and boys.
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Merry Christmas
Blanchard and Calhoun Real Estate wishes everyone a Merry Christmas
Dear Editor,
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say that there is no Santa Claus. Papa says “If you see it in the Sun, it is so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia,
Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.
All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to our life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus? You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your Papa to hire men to watch all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove?
Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.
Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, or even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond.
Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else as real and abiding.
No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, maybe 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the hearts of children.
Compliments of Blanchard and Calhoun Real Estate and Written by Francis P. Church in 1897
We are asking for your help today. Today all over Augusta Georgia, Blanchard & Calhoun is teaming up with Press On to Cure Childhood Cancer and the National Marrow Donor Program to register people from 12-6 to become potential bone marrow donors. The Bone Marrow drive in 2010 was a huge success and we are looking forward to adding to that total.
We have made it easy to register, all you need is to come by one of convenient locations and give us a cheek swab. It’s easy, free and you will get on the National Marrow Donor list.
Thank you to all the volunteers, who are taking time to make sure there are more potential matches for the kids fighting Leukemia.
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Veterans Day 2011 is here. Blanchard and Calhoun’s family of Business salute the Veterans in the military. We are proud to have Fort Gordon in our Augusta Georgia community. We can’t thank the veterans enough for the sacrfice they made in protecting our great country, The United States of America. Blanchard & Calhoun also salutes our Active duty military across Augusta and the country. God Bless America