American Views Abroad

 
There was a brilliant cartoon by Tom Toles in the IHT yesterday that sums up the underlying reason for a lack of holiday spirit this year. 'I guess I'm still just having trouble getting used to NEW TRADITIONS.' http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20051213/cx_tt_uc/tt20051213.

Indeterminacy sent best wishes for a Merry Christmas along with a link to his holiday story. We seem to be on similar wavelengths this season.
http://indeterminacy.blogspot.com/2005/12/peace-on-earth-good-will-to-men.html.

For the first time my tree has no colored lights but white ones and not too many ornaments, just a few selected handmade ones. Actually it seems more attuned to nature this way and eludes a peacefulness that was sorely missed this year. The cards and letters from family and old friends are a welcomed respite from hearing bad news. The messages are longer and more personal, not a ritual hastily done but meant. It is so good to know these people are there, particularly in times so unsettling.
- posted by Gloria @ 6:13 PM