Tamara P Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have my own "beef" with "premie Christmas" and it's the Christmas >trees disappearing, by Dec 15 or wearlier. Our supplier sets up on the >Friday after Thanksgiving and is gone (sold out? given up?) sometime >between Dec 10 and 15. But, in Poland, we don't set up our "home" tree >until Dec 24th (Christmas Eve). And we don't take it down till Jan 6th >(Epiphany). Even a dyed-in-the-wool atheist like myself knows that.
I'm lucky: living in SW Outer Nowhere has the side benefit that Christmas trees are grown here. Although I do see several shipments of them on trucks early in November (no wonder the needles fall off!), with a little effort I can still cut my own a week or so before Christmas. >For all the fuss that's being made in US about the godless liberals >declaring a war on Christmas it's the theofascists, driven by profits, >who have taken both the meaning and the magic out of the holiday. I >used to love Christmas but don't anymore. I spend a lot of time in stores turning my head, looking the other way, and practically plugging my ears and singing "la la la" to avoid even seeing all the "Buy buy buy now now now" that goes on. Not to mention that snow is now a hit-and-miss thing for Christmas. When I was growing up only 60 miles from here, we always had snow for Christmas, sometimes for Thanksgiving. Whether it's "global warming" or not, we have certainly experienced a considerable change from then (1960's and 70's) to now. This year we had no snow for Christmas, still no snow now, and temperatures near 50 degrees F. Pfui! Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com http://lost-arts.blogspot.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
