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I will celebrate Yule. It's going to be a personal ceremony, but then I don't do ceremony often and personalize it. So it will be my celebration of being strong and the energies which surround us. I'll listen to my wiccan music filk and enjoy. I'll go to the trouble of making something nice (live alone, a one pan meal is my usual, though its good) and sing along with the songs.
I don't celebrate the christian holiday. My choice. I like the feeling of new promise in both but the meaning part if the Lady for me.
The rest of it, I'll just keep quiet and personal.
I share many of your sentiments and circumstances, but am curious about all the extra chores you mentioned. Without immediate family, who are you buying and wrapping gifts for and baking?
Is Christmas for kids? Should we just plug along and endure?
I do go out and attend local events, help with fundraisers, go to mass and drum circle - but still feel
I know what you mean. Getting out, wearing a Santa hat, and being extra polite and saying nice things to people helps a lot. It always amazes me how hard it is for people to be grumpy when an old chubby guy wearing a Santa hat (that would be me) smiles at them.
The happiness we both feel, even briefly, provokes the old Christmas spirit in me. And, I hope, in them — because that’s the key: making other people happy.
Also as I get older, the constant "buy buy buy" associated with the holiday really turns me off, along with the stupid, made-up "War on Christmas" stuff. "But MY religious holiday should be forced on EVERYONE who must say the greeting of my choice to me or I shall become petulant and whine."
DH doesn't like shopping, so I even have to buy my own gifts (for birthday and Christmas as I was born in December).
I know he's essentially housebound but he won't even go online and purchase that thing or those things you've indicated you'd like?
I'm sorry. That must be painful.
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