As a child, I confess I found Christmas gifts wildly exciting. (Maybe I was a pre-diamond-cut version of myself?) As an adult, though, human beings are my steady focus of excitement. Our Christmas Eve last night was
Entries Tagged as 'Christmas'
Diamond-Cut Christmas Shopping
December 20th, 2011 · No Comments · community
It’s early Tuesday morning, Christmas is Sunday, and I have Christmas gifts to buy. “What a last-minute shopper!” my carpool partner Cory grinned last night on the ride home. “This is on time,” I returned indignantly.
Tags: artist·big box·Christmas·Christmas gifts·local·Mirador·olden days·Saturday Market·shopping·Target
Christmas Wreaths And Slowing Down
December 14th, 2010 · No Comments · sustainability
Are you feeling at all hectic or pressured as Christmas approaches? As if the holiday season is so fast-paced and demanding you’d maybe rather skip all this? Let me tell you the story behind Christmas wreaths, the kind I have on my front door. It’s actually the only Christmas decoration we have. (And I don’t [...]
Born For This
December 25th, 2009 · No Comments · global warming and climate change, spirituality & religion
Approaching midnight at my church’s candlelight Christmas Eve service last night, after we had worked our way through the birth-of-Christ story with scripture readings and a goodly assortment of carols, we sang a final song that contained this lyric: Now ye hear of endless bliss / Jesus Christ was born for this! Those words thrummed [...]
Tags: Christmas·gifts cards·Jesus Christ·life purpose·President Obama·Starbucks
Winter Solstice And The Unconquered Sun And Son
December 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · home & garden, lifestyle, nature, spirituality & religion
The first part of this piece I posted last year, on the 2008 winter solstice. The rest of it I added for 2009. Today is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. In the days long before fossil fuels routinely lit our nights, winter solstice was celebrated as the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun. [...]
Tags: Christianity·Christmas·divine feminine·Goddess·Jared Diamond·Our Father·solstice·winter solstice
