Christmas Tree
Dec. 3rd, 2004 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI think I'll get the Christmas tree out of its box.
It doesn't seem long since I last put it away. Hell- they don't make years as long as they used to.
It looks like it's going to be twilight all day long and I feel the need for sparkly things.
In the film I watched yesterday these Polish people were going to Midnight Mass. How comforting to be a Catholic in a Catholic country! To feel the sparkle as something not merely applied but as a deep, deep thing that wraps you round.
I've been asking myself what- if anything- I'm celebrating this year. And the answer is I don't really know and I don't think it matters. Christmas is older than any religion.
The world is full of snow and wolves but we have fire.
Throw on another log. Watch the sparks fly.
It doesn't seem long since I last put it away. Hell- they don't make years as long as they used to.
It looks like it's going to be twilight all day long and I feel the need for sparkly things.
In the film I watched yesterday these Polish people were going to Midnight Mass. How comforting to be a Catholic in a Catholic country! To feel the sparkle as something not merely applied but as a deep, deep thing that wraps you round.
I've been asking myself what- if anything- I'm celebrating this year. And the answer is I don't really know and I don't think it matters. Christmas is older than any religion.
The world is full of snow and wolves but we have fire.
Throw on another log. Watch the sparks fly.
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Date: 2004-12-04 09:54 am (UTC)A woman I used to travel with on the bus gave me a single lemon geranium. This was about 12 years ago. Now the house is overflowing with its descendants.