[Magdalen] Christmas memories

[Georgia DuBose]

Apparently. ;)

Hallelujah anyway.

Georgia+

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mostly I struggle with Christmas (as many of you know only too well),
> as I've long ago burned out on the idea of acting a certain way and
> doing certain things mainly to satisfy the immutable expectations of
> those who must "have" a "perfect" "Christmas" and have lots of rules
> about what that must be. I've come to learn that these expectations
> are mostly projections in my mind. But some are real, like those of my
> partner's family, who take traditions to the nth degree: if they
> visited somewhere on vacation years ago and had a marvelous time, that
> becomes a tradition, so the same place must be visited on the same day
> every year, staying in the same room of the same B&B, etc. And
> holidays must be done identically every year. I'd find that rather
> imprisoning, but I'm weird.
>
> I'm a bit mellower this year, mainly because the holiday is tightly
> crowded by ongoing work for my job, and most of what I might consider
> doing for Christmas has had to be written off. I'm diverging from my
> editing right now and should get back to it.
>
> One of my favorite memories, oddly, is of my Uncle Jim, who probably
> still does this: He finds things to complain about (in his loud voice)
> and attaches extra outrage to them based on their happening on or near
> Christmas. "Looked out the window, and there was a parking ticket on
> my car!....Merry Christmas!"  "Got to the checkout aisles, and every
> aisle had a line halfway to the back of the store!....Merry
> Christmas!" "A guy cut me off on the expressway, and HE flipped ME
> off!....Merry Christmas!"
>
> A beloved Knitter family tradition.
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA