About every holiday. It is barely New Year’s and I see Valentine’s Day stuff for sale already. I saw Christmas things before Hallowe’en season even began. Christmas of 2006 was so commercialized I felt no Christmas spirit whatsoever. The true meaning of Christmas is not about buying the latest thing for my nephews, but it has turned out that way. Very sad.
and what I do is strive to do something each Christmas that I know nourishes that true spirit of Christmas for me.
I love to sing and this year I organized a Christmas caroling gathering for my cohousing community. In other years I have attended “The Spirit of Christmas” play here in Seattle. It was very moving and beautiful.
Some years I don’t do much and I find myself feeling empty and without the spirit of Christmas about me but I realize now that I contribute to that by doing little or nothing. I can’t control the commercialism but I can control my own spirit of the season by what I choose to do and how I treat people.
Tha Gensta of 2008 NEW & IMPROVED... cheered this 2 years ago
