tasha_tart
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Joined: 2/20/2004 From: Ontario, Canada Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: LadyMorgynn Although I celebrate Yule a few days earlier than Christmas, I do appreciate the season because... and it may not seem like much... but people SMILE at each other. In the stores, in the streets, the malls... people who would otherwise normally keep to themselves, will meet each other's eyes. Smile. Share comments over the vegetable display. I like when a grocery checker who is looking really stressed out, gets a customer who takes the time to smile at her and wish her happy holidays, and for that one moment, you can see her stress dissipate, and a spark comes to her eyes as she responds, and even when that customer is gone, she turns to the next with more heart. And I like carols (lots of which are as pagan as Yule), and I like the lights, and the trees (also pagan) and making peanutbutter-birdseed toast cut into Christmas shapes and hung outdoors for the birds, and the mistletoe and holly (pagan again), and the presents and wassailing (pagan <sigh>). More than getting presents, I like giving them... choosing things I hope will please the recipient... and I love doing beautiful giftwrapping... it's almost to fetish proportions <laugh> My favorite Christmas music? You're not going to believe this, pagan that I am, but it's Handel's Messiah. I start listening to it around July <laugh>, keep a copy in my car and just belt it out :) Alto, of course! I couldn't agree more. Despite all the stresses (largely self-imposed) of the season, most people genuinely harbor more good feeling toward their fellows at this time of year. I've always loved the lights and decorations, but putting them away is a big pain. Tasha btw...I now have Messiah stuck in my head...of course there are worse tunes.
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