Christmas is past for another year as it's one day. Hanukkah lasts eight, and it also began the 25th this year. It celebrates a military victory and the lasting of oil, when it should not have.
Christmas, celebrating Jesus' birth in a manger, was chosen to be at the same time as other religious events and perhaps close to the Solstice. Jesus was unlikely to have been born at this time, given the shepherds with the sheep more likely in the spring. It's about what it means though more than just the physical aspects to it.
Christmas is also a season and it lasts into January based on other spiritual beliefs for Christians.
This is a difficult season for many people, if they celebrate it. Major gatherings both in churches and homes can be uplifting, but as times change, sometimes they do also.
Our holiday season has been very quiet as, here in the desert, we live quite a ways from family. The important part for us, as elders, now is that they are doing well and are happy, as much as happiness can be found in today's topsy-turvy world. And that term well suits this time in history where some places seem fine and others very confused. We do the best we can with it.
however and wherever
you chose to celebrate it.
and friends coming together,
of imagination,
of magic,
of mysticism.
For my magical part, (you know, we can be
I will be in a plain mountain cabin,
horses and cows well fed down by the barn.
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