List of Sounds:
the gentle yet celebratory crackle of a midwinter fire, lit here as in every other room, since no hearth must be dark on the day when returning light marks the miracle of an infinitely, perpetually hallowed ordinary
the quiet ticktock of a mantle clock, which does not "keep time" today (who can pay heed, on Christmas, to the harrying tickingby of minutes?) but instead voices its greeting to all those who enter, ensuring that no visitor is without cheerful yet unassuming company, and reveling in each hour of the year's very best day with a dulcet chiming of bells
an occasional bluster of wind, whose nip does not chill the joy of the day but is, instead, enlivening swirling snowflakes into dance, and kissing cheeks into rosy flush, and sweetening the delight of arrival by allowing it to be felt not just in the heart but real and manifest in the warm tingle of fingers and toes
the shifting of chattering voices from distant & muffled to congenially near: guests wend house to house and room to room, as if on jolly Christmas pilgrimage through each wellkept, tidy, bedecked, and brightened residence in the village, every house now so aglow with the warmth and welcome of the season that little distinguishes "neighbor" from "home"
the singing out of laughter, the truest Christmas carol, its chorus passed each to each regardless of age or station the hearty, throaty laugh of the greyhaired cook unites thus in joy with the onlyjustbarely restrained titter of wellfrocked young ladies and the scampering giggle of toddler & nursemaid
the spirited play of children (to whom Christmas belongs) heard echoing from the upstairs nursery and spilling down into the parlour, as the day's toys are discovered and rediscovered with evernew, evergrowing enchantment: a wooden train navigates the terrain of rug and chairlegs and unobliging grownup feet; wooden blocks are stacked and toppled and stacked again; picturebook pages are turned over with rapturous care; the ribbons that had once ornamented the gifts become, in themselves, happy playthings
the quiet flick & shuffle of cards, as a lively game of whist demonstrates that play is not just the domain of children and instead befits all who choose to partake in it, whatever the form
the sprightly bustle of hostess with company, she in whom the season's virtue of generosity finds glad expression in the offering, and offering again, of refreshments always in miraculous abundance; she glides among guests as if tripping and whirling to the music of clinking punchglasses, and clattering teaware, and cakeslicing, and candybowl filling
the pleasantly softened strains of "Good King Wenceslas" heard drifting through the nearest wall, when a wandering group of family and friends stumble upon the piano, encourage a tutored but diffident accompanist into service, and gather 'round gaily in song (at 2:28:44)
the purposeful tromping of boots through snow and the jingling, neighing traversing of hillsides by onehorse open sleigh, which serve as happy reminders that, just as all those who arrive here are embraced with the loving merriment of Christmas, so too are other travelers on their way to warm hearths and open arms

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