December 6, 2003
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Lights
photos courtesy of my brother.
I admit to being more than scroogish about the holiday season, especially as practiced in America's rich, kitsch-filled heartland ..... But still. There's something about the twinkling multicolored glory on our huge spruce, of a brisk, snow-scattered morning, that brings a little jot of excitement to my worried heart. Something about that slant of light from the rising sun that echoes the man-man glitter in just the right heart-throbbing fashion to brighten the eye on both counts.
Something about it that rekindles the jump-for-joy excitement of my earliest memories, staring agog at all the panoply of the season.
Yes.
Comments (19)
Oh yes. I agree 100%.
Yep yep. I mostly tune out all the baser aspects of Christmas a l'Amerique du Nord. And I take a lot of pleasure from Christmas.
We like to drive around at this time of year and look at all the lights. It really is a fairly land. We have a man in our neighborhood who has constructed a large gingerbread house surrounded by 4 foot tall candy canes. You expect to see Hansel and Gretel running out at any moment. The creativity of some people is amazing!
my parents would drag us out one night every december, in our pajamas and all that, preferably if it was snowing, and we'd cruise the neighborhood looking at all the lights on the houses. that's still one of my favorite holiday things.
Makes ya feel like a kid again, doesn't it?
I had that feeling about me this morning and last night while watching the neighbors light up their houses - now we are getting some decor going
I'm particularly fond of xmas lights wrapped around palm trees.
Preferably on a beach.
The fairy lights are really the only part of the holiday the Professor and I get into...we make a much bigger deal of his birthday, which is the winter solstice.
The essence of the season is loving each other. That's what causes the good feeling. Thanks for reminding us.
I can scarcely believe that my SON is hanging the lights this year (him mum has been after him for being so lackadaisical of late)...
I have begun an internal resistance to the opiate of the masses (my twist to Marx's old adage), and so am concentrating on relationships this season, not on materiel...
"...staring agog at all the panoply of the season"
winner Dread Pirates quote of the Day!
Sail on... sail on!!!
Yes ~ sigh ~ this is beautiful. The words, the images ... and the sentiment of wishing for something other than the tiresome materialistic frenzy that seems to push at me from every angle.
nice site you got here
Ahh, the magic of Christmas, for all the cynical jaded anti-consumerist sentiment that seeks to fade its glories. There;s something about the season that stands defiant in preservation of tradition and remembrance.
There are beautiful lights in my neck of the woods. Our neighbors really get carried away. I lovethose photos.
those are beautiful images...I hope you have a awesome rest of the weekend!!!
Tina
we've had some gloriously colored sunrises and sunsets here of late...
i think the tree...no matter how pretty the lights (and, for the record, i'm a light hound) is a gentle reminder to look outside once and awhile and remember.
I can never tire of your poetics. yes you're right. You read my Bitchmas blog. I'm so disgusted with the consumerist aspect of the holiday. And it seems to just get worse every year. But huge trees magically decorated and angels and tinsel and jolly fat men on corners ringing bells. It does something that no other time of the year can duplicate.