Tag: celebration
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Yule Tree
Having trouble getting into the spirit? I’ve lined up a couple of weeks worth of fun holiday pictures I’ve scrounged and stolen from around the internet over the years, some of which I’ve shared before, some I haven’t.
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Whoops. Wrong Home.
I snagged this one from facebook today. This is the kind of world I like to imagine we live in–and the kind of home I try to have. So, give me a call. Come on over, we’ll celebrate whatever holiday works for you.
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Beautiful Christmas
I occasionally indulge myself in “willful preoccupation” by scouring the internet for holiday spirit, particularly in holiday form. One of my favorite Christmas photo themes is “other peoples’ holidays”. Photo from Micheline on Flickr
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A Solemn Christmas Disrespects Him
I’ve been having a lot of fun with the absurd “War on Christmas” narrative that rises up from the cynical, the indignant, and the cynically indignant, each year. It seems like I just can’t get away from the subject, and here I go again. You’ll probably be surprised to discover that among the hundreds of…
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Ghosts of Christmas Past Part 1: Hanging of The Greens
I began this essay last season, ultimately publishing the initial portions as a somewhat unrefined draft, but never finishing–so the six or seven of you who read it last year might find the first portions somewhat familiar. For most of you, however, we’re treading on new ground. My ardent followers and weary friends will certainly…
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Blog Behavior, Minor Milestone: Post #50
Well, I’ve been feeling pretty smug about myself–not quite 3 months into taking this blog seriously, and I’ve managed 50 posts (with a bunch more in queue, in fact) and close to 100 followers (thanks, by the way)–and I could probably scare up some more, except that I realize that at this point most of…
Old Road Apples 