I remember reading posts early on this year, that this would be the 'Christmas that wasn't.' Just wondering how that is playing out for everybody. My sister did not decorate this year. After losing her father-in-law, her grandmother-in-law, and her best friend's husband unexpectedly in death, they just don't feel like 'doing the season' this year. I don't blame them.
My dad's friend sells crafts at Christmas time. This year he is barely covering expenses. Money is tight for alot of people. Heating bills and gasoline prices notwithstanding. Benefit cuts here and salary cuts there have to put a damper on things.
I can't imagine that New Orleans will be too cheerful this season. And families of NYC transit workers are probably not too sure about things, either. The season is becoming a regular nuisance.
Dis-Illusion-ment can be a good thing. We go through the motions with alot of life's events. Is it bad to finally get tired of it? Tired of the constant bad news? Tired of the rat race? Tired of cheap stuff and temporary thrills and all of the emotional roller-coastering that goes with it?
So maybe someone somewhere will take the signs he/she is giving him/herself and ask that greatest, most expansive question of all...WHY? And when they ask, maybe the still, small voice that has failed to get their attention until now, will be able to give them the Answer. And then maybe "the Christmas that wasn't" will become a new kind of season that will be, forever and ever, all that they ever imagined if could be.
Peace on Earth,
Peace in YOU...
Vim
My dad's friend sells crafts at Christmas time. This year he is barely covering expenses. Money is tight for alot of people. Heating bills and gasoline prices notwithstanding. Benefit cuts here and salary cuts there have to put a damper on things.
I can't imagine that New Orleans will be too cheerful this season. And families of NYC transit workers are probably not too sure about things, either. The season is becoming a regular nuisance.
Dis-Illusion-ment can be a good thing. We go through the motions with alot of life's events. Is it bad to finally get tired of it? Tired of the constant bad news? Tired of the rat race? Tired of cheap stuff and temporary thrills and all of the emotional roller-coastering that goes with it?
So maybe someone somewhere will take the signs he/she is giving him/herself and ask that greatest, most expansive question of all...WHY? And when they ask, maybe the still, small voice that has failed to get their attention until now, will be able to give them the Answer. And then maybe "the Christmas that wasn't" will become a new kind of season that will be, forever and ever, all that they ever imagined if could be.
Peace on Earth,
Peace in YOU...
Vim
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