Merry Christmas everyone!

[Mountain Crown]

Christmas Carol

 

[MusicMan]

Here we are three years later.
May all your days be peaceful, and your tables full.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

 

[Thomas Alan]

Merry Christmas to you all. May there be Joy and Love in all your days.

Mac

 

[Carl]

Merry Christmas :). May we one day see peace on Earth!

 

[SMM]

Merry Christmas, everyone! And Yule / Solstice blessings! :)

 

[Hindsight Man]

Merry Christmas! :)

 

[Skyalmian]

Merry Christmas :)

 

[seeker of light]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEQ07_22YA0

PEACE AND HAPPINESS TO ALL

 

[Suxhi]

Merry Christmas everyone

 

[kapepua]

Come they told me ~PA ram pam pam pam.

 

[nature]

A thought to all people who suffer, in wars, in hospitals, in society, abused children everywhere in devastated countries and also in western rich countries.
May their mind be strong enough to survive.
May their soul be saved.

 

[miguel angel]

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

[treesparrow]

Happy Excessmas everyone. :) Take everything in moderation - including moderation itself?

 

[Gawan]

Merry Christmas everyone

again Suxhi, maybe you missed it the first time, but it would be really great if you could write a brief intro about yourself in the Newbies section, telling us how you found this forum, how long you've been reading it and/or the SOTT page, whether or not you've read any of Laura's books yet, etc.

And also a happy Caesarmas to everyone.

 

[Laura]

We wish everyone a healthy and rewarding New Year.

As for Christmas, we haven't felt much like celebrating anything for awhile now. So, we are not really "celebrating" Christmas. No gifts this year - it just seems somehow "off" to be giving gifts in commemoration of a myth and when so many people on the planet are suffering and doing without.

We are remembering that it is the Winter Solstice and the "return of the lengthening of days", so we put a live tree in a big pot in our salon with one string of lights on it, a butterfly on top and a few plastic baubles. Far cry from the elaborate trees of the past. We'll plant the tree in the yard when Spring comes. We DID do our usual exterior decorations for the benefit of neighbors.

We aren't having our usual turkey and dressing either. We are having a ham and sweet potatoes instead and keeping the dinner very low key. I didn't go all out on baking mountains of goodies this year either. It just seemed "off" to do that. We have cookies, date bread and one kind of pie for dessert.

So, basically, we have scaled things back severely and are not putting a lot of energy into a big "feast-celebration" that is not in keeping with the realities of our world. The benefits seem to be that we stick closer to our diet, conserve energy, save money. That's not a bad thing I guess.