Virginia's Christmas Cards

Each year, a few lucky people (sometimes upwards of a hundred) would receive one of Virginia's Legendary Handpainted Christmas Cards. Each was slightly different, each was a gift from someone who really couldn't spare a moment. Books and articles awaited, her family waited, book tours and speaking engagements waited - while Virginia made art for Christmas!

May your Christmas know
The joy of birds -
The glory of stars -
The strength of trees -
The peace of snow. (date unknown)

Now let the echoes
of the songs of May
Refresh and warm your hearts
on Christmas Day - 1963

1961

1966


For you -
We wish you peace,
As peace comes with the snow.
We wish you strength
As strength is given to arctic flowers.
We wish you joy, -
The joy of hearing, once again,
The music of a winter wren. 1964

How shall I wish you strength?
A trees says "strength" so silently.
How shall I wish you joy?
A birds sings joy and needs no words.
How shall I wish you peace,
When snow breathes peace so perfectly?
Yet these are the gifts I wish to you
At Christmas time.
And in the year to come. (date unknown)

Date unknown

The sky and trees and flakes of snow
Performed a necromoney show
When Nature, in a single night,
Laid out a world of shining white,
And everyone woke up to see
The miracle of snow and tree.

Let micacles we may not see -
Of peach and Strength and Charity -
Illunine you on Christmas Day
And cast their light along your way. 1962