[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

I can remember fussing over tinsel on the Christmas tree at home in
NW Wisconsin.  My partner, Wilfred, is enormously talented  decorating
Christmas trees, and we usually have several trees throughout the  house
with different themes.  To my surprise, he did one tree this year  primarily
in tinsel.  I didn't even realize you could by the stuff any  more.
 
 
David S.
 

>  One of the odd things my mother did when we were kids in the 1960s  (she
> died Christmas morning in 2010) was to save the tinsel that she  hung on 
the
> tree.  She felt a Christmas Tree wasn't a true tree  unless it had tinsel 
on
> it.  I wonder if, her being a child of  the depression, made her save
> things...but tinsel?  That must  have been made of gold, not silver.
>