An Admission

[poliphilo]

Of course my distaste for Christmas goes back to the break-up of my first marriage. After that my kids never ever got to spend Christmas Day with me. I pretended not to mind- but I did.

I've always dealt with emotional pain by stuffing it up my jumper.

The kids are grown up now. One's in Leicester, one's in Japan and one lives with me and Ailz. There are no grandchildren- yet. Perhaps it's time I moved on....

Comments

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

What will you move on to?

Sometimes we celebrate Epiphany (Jan. 6) and then...is it called Candlemas? (Feb 2?), and that helps with the winter drudgery... and it's not commercialized (yet, anyway)

Oh, and our anniversary is Feb. 14. (I never liked Valentine's Day until we decided to have our wedding on it. It made a nice party for friends to come to, too!)

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

well one could ease into it by reading
Twelfth Night! what a grand play that is isn't it?
well I see this is on yours Zoe but I daresay Tony
will get it too, maybe there will be a version of
the 12th night presented as street theatre at our
Night Cafe?

Twelfth Night

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

Great idea! Let's put out the call to all -- gather at the Night Cafe on Twelfth Night! First we'll have a choral + mimed performance of "The 12 Days of Christmas," followed by street drama!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I love Twelfth Night.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

For a long time I made a point of celebrating the Solstice and ignoring Christmas Day (as if that were really possible.) No, what I'm hoping is that, having recognised the source of my glumness, I may be able to stop being such a grinchy old Scrooge.