Christmas is rapidly fading into the darkness. We drove around looking for lights here in colonial New England. For the most part people are traditional, a candle (electric) in the window, with some lights, mostly white, around a tree in front. This year Home Depot, in addition to selling those wire reindeer must have put out strings of blue, green and purple lights, they seem to have caught on around here.
We came around a curve on one of the more traditional colonial neighborhoods and were suddenly rewarded by a four story house with what must be at least 30,000 lights. Not just lights, characters, ornaments, shapes and trees, and the best part was that each segment blinked on and off in some kind of random, blinding pattern that added to the celebratory chaos.
A quarter of my clients spend Christmas by themselves. Another 40% have to deal with difficult family situations, either choosing to see father or mother, or just plain old fashioned tension, due to constant criticism, rejection or something worse. But that leaves 35% who want to go home for the holiday. They see their parents and siblings and they feel refreshed, sustained, welcome and happy.
As you may have figured out by now, I am not the biggest fan of the religious aspects of anything. But I don't want to get into that now; just ask Michelle Bachmann and think the opposite. But I do believe that any occasion that makes people think for at least a minute about Peace, Love and Understanding is worth celebrating.
I hope everyone celebrated happily, and in their own way. I hope everyone got what they wanted from Sanity Clause.
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I hope you had wonderful holidays and that the coming year will be good for you
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