MERRY CHRISTMAS
So this is Christmas...Tonight Gabby solemnly announced that we would sing "Happy Birthday, Jesus" before her bedtime. If that is not "getting the true meaning", I don't know what is.
We went light on the "Santa's coming" part. I'll never forget my uncle who both thrilled and terrorized the nephews one year by brandishing a shiny black work boot, while breathlessly saying "I almost had him going back up the chimney!" A little rough. Points for props, though.
Did you stop to consider, amidst the "50 to 75% OFF!" signs, that if they can take those reductions, we must've really been getting screwed on that original price?
I figured it out: the vortex of people at HEB yesterday wasn't really mass numbers of shoppers, but really just a lot of people who never go to HEB but once a year, and then wander around pie-eyed like beggars at the feast. And holiday food shoppers: Don't. Bring. The. Whole. Family. Invite them for the eventual meal or snack, but it's not like you need more laborers in the aisles to bring in the harvest!
You reach a point in life when you realize the only "peace" you can really attain on this earth is inner. It's hard to hold, different for each of us, and the lack of it has a great deal to do with the sorry state we always find our world in on December 25th. We keep trying, humbled by the origins of this celebration: a life given, a light given.
A blessed and merry Christmas for you and yours.
--Jack
posted by Jack @ 7:29 PM
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