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capri0mniIt started snowing early this morning. It kept snowing all day (sun just came out, within the last few minutes, and there were still flurries falling past my west-facing windows just before I came in here to type this).
It's not enough snow to actually hide the ground beneath, but each holly leaf on my shrubs has its own white cap.
Humph!
Why am I contemptuous of "White Christmas?" Because it puts too much importance on superficial, external conditions.
Even if you are completely secular in your outlook, the end of one year and preparation for the next, provides a perfect oportunity to take stock of your life and your relationships as they are in the here and now, and to celebrate what is real, and important. Bringing in artificial snow machines, and or decorating every shop window to look like it fits within the artic circle, just to fit some ideal of a song made famous in a Hollywood Movie is the opposite of all that.
And if you're religious in your outlook, and actually celebrate Divine action within the Mortal realm at this season, well... putting snow around the Manger is even more troublesome.
Though I do admit, the snow out there right now looks mighty purdy. :-)
It's not enough snow to actually hide the ground beneath, but each holly leaf on my shrubs has its own white cap.
Humph!
Why am I contemptuous of "White Christmas?" Because it puts too much importance on superficial, external conditions.
Even if you are completely secular in your outlook, the end of one year and preparation for the next, provides a perfect oportunity to take stock of your life and your relationships as they are in the here and now, and to celebrate what is real, and important. Bringing in artificial snow machines, and or decorating every shop window to look like it fits within the artic circle, just to fit some ideal of a song made famous in a Hollywood Movie is the opposite of all that.
And if you're religious in your outlook, and actually celebrate Divine action within the Mortal realm at this season, well... putting snow around the Manger is even more troublesome.
Though I do admit, the snow out there right now looks mighty purdy. :-)
