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In excelsis deo...
Monday, 24 December 2007 22:10So, this year, Christmas finds me here with April's family. Last year, it was spent with my own, and so we reversed it for this year. Eventually, we plan to get a house somewhere in the middle of Massachusetts and everyone can come spend it with us.
Hopefully, wherever you are, you're enjoying this time of the year: forget the wallets, the drained bank accounts, the abuse that your credit cards took--just sit back and celebrate life. You're alive. Isn't that what this is all about? The birth of Christ...the celebration of new life. Or for you pagans, the Saturnalia (the holiday that Christianity stole and made it into Christmas).
Regardless of race, creed, ancestral relation or current station in life, I'm hoping that this time finds you happy, well, and safe. It's amazing now how life changes so drastically since leaving high school. Who would've guessed that 4 years since leaving high school I'd be engaged? That some of you are too, even married, and some of you even beginning families of your own...regardless, here we are.
It's in the singing of a street corner choir; it's going home and getting warm by the fire...it's true wherever you find love, it feels like Christmas. And even though that line was from the Muppet Christmas Carol, the words of that ring true. It's not about doorbuster deals, and about how capitalism has perverted what Christmas really is...the holiday isn't about padding your bottom line. It's about being together, showing love and care, being giving of yourself, things that a good person should be doing all year, and not solely on the 25th of December.
And even as I sit here writing this wearing my Santa hat, I'm hoping that wherever you are, you can enjoy the celebration. Even though many of you are separated from me by distance, I hold a place for each one of you right here inside my heart...Rach, and her boy and her baby; Sarah, the future head of Umbrella; Carolyn, whom I hope to see on the New York Times bestseller list with my April; Dan, the technological woodland creature; Annie, Mary, James, Wyatt, Shanti, my friends and family all over the planet, the list goes on and on.
And of course, to my fiance...who has and still is everything to me, the person who makes me feel complete.
Enjoy this day. The celebration of life. For I shall be doing the same.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Hopefully, wherever you are, you're enjoying this time of the year: forget the wallets, the drained bank accounts, the abuse that your credit cards took--just sit back and celebrate life. You're alive. Isn't that what this is all about? The birth of Christ...the celebration of new life. Or for you pagans, the Saturnalia (the holiday that Christianity stole and made it into Christmas).
Regardless of race, creed, ancestral relation or current station in life, I'm hoping that this time finds you happy, well, and safe. It's amazing now how life changes so drastically since leaving high school. Who would've guessed that 4 years since leaving high school I'd be engaged? That some of you are too, even married, and some of you even beginning families of your own...regardless, here we are.
It's in the singing of a street corner choir; it's going home and getting warm by the fire...it's true wherever you find love, it feels like Christmas. And even though that line was from the Muppet Christmas Carol, the words of that ring true. It's not about doorbuster deals, and about how capitalism has perverted what Christmas really is...the holiday isn't about padding your bottom line. It's about being together, showing love and care, being giving of yourself, things that a good person should be doing all year, and not solely on the 25th of December.
And even as I sit here writing this wearing my Santa hat, I'm hoping that wherever you are, you can enjoy the celebration. Even though many of you are separated from me by distance, I hold a place for each one of you right here inside my heart...Rach, and her boy and her baby; Sarah, the future head of Umbrella; Carolyn, whom I hope to see on the New York Times bestseller list with my April; Dan, the technological woodland creature; Annie, Mary, James, Wyatt, Shanti, my friends and family all over the planet, the list goes on and on.
And of course, to my fiance...who has and still is everything to me, the person who makes me feel complete.
Enjoy this day. The celebration of life. For I shall be doing the same.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
