Thursday, October 14, 2021

Truce On Xmas

I have mentioned before, more than once, that I make things for people for Xmas.  I've been making and sending out fruitcakes (rum soaked and tasty, not the kind apparently assembled by a pile driver where fruits are pressed together so tightly they’re held by an atomic bond) for over 30 years (!).  I used to make cookies, but they don't ship so well, so I make breads instead.  Stollen, pannetone, pandoro, and other Christmas breads, mostly.

I frequently have recommended Bill McKibben's Hundred Dollar Holiday.  I'm a big advocate for simple Christmas celebrations with family and friends, and food and drink and maybe even games, the way Dickens described it (and before Clement Clark Moore got ahold of it).

And so now we come to Fauci, or Biden, or the Grinch, stealing Christmas.  Did nobody learn the moral of that story?

It's not like this is going to happen on Xmas morning and we're going to wake up to empty trees with nothing but lights and baubles to show it's Xmas Day.  Hallowe'en is still 18 days away (as I type).  We see this coming, to the extent that it is. We can prepare for a Xmas without store-bought items and, dare I say it, without massive post-Xmas debt.

Who needs that?

This is Striketober, after all.
If we're going to strike a blow for fairness and equity in the job market, we might as well strike one for Christmas Day, too.  Are we so pitiful that if the ships from China grinch our Christmas, we'll wake up and boo-hoo around the Xmas tree?  Will Christmas not come if the stores don't provide us with everything we are desperate to buy and pile on the floor?

I think we're a little better than this, and a low-key, family oriented Christmas, even if you can't get a turkey after Thanksgiving, won't be a disaster.  The Grinch took everything, after all, right down to the last tree bauble and even the Roast Beast.  The Whos down in Whoville didn't care.  They had Christmas anyway.

Can we learn nothing from that?

Sure we can.  Make your plans accordingly, and look forward to a festive season even if the shipping is delayed and packages don't reach their destinations. Here's an idea, if you're anxious:  mail before Thanksgiving.  Or just makes lots of phone calls on Xmas Day.

If the Grinch couldn't cancel Christmas, who are we to do so?
Yeah, that’s how this works. Well, we wouldn’t want that to happen!
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  1. The Thought Criminal5:17 AM

    How do they explain that Boris Johnson's Trump-Putin endorsed Brexit-Britland is expecting serious shortages for Christmas, too? Only we're Americans, that doesn't exist.

    I'd like Trump to lose another golf course for Christmas, the one in Scotland or NJ.

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