A Joyous Holiday to All

[50PoundHead]

I hope we can take a break in the action to just wish everyone a happy holiday season irrespective of what deity one worships (and those who disdain worship of any deity) and hope that we as a society can work our way through these difficult times and remain civil in the process.

[nsacpi]

I already wished a Happy Winter Solstice to all and would like to echo the wishes and hopes expressed in the OP.

[50PoundHead]

I already wished a Happy Winter Solstice to all and would like to echo the wishes and hopes expressed in the OP.

I always remember the solstices, because my late farming father would always remark (almost daily) that the days were getting shorter after the summer solstice and vice versa after the winter solstice. I hated it as a kid, but I look back upon it now and always crack a smile.

[nsacpi]

I always remember the solstices, because my late farming father would always remark (almost daily) that the days were getting shorter after the summer solstice and vice versa after the winter solstice. I hated it as a kid, but I look back upon it now and always crack a smile.

One of my favorite memories from living in the East Bay was having a Wiccan Priestess as a neighbor. And I always regret she never saw fit to invite me to the various celebrations and ceremonies held at her house.

[57Brave]

[57Brave]

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Woody Guthrie New Years Resolutions 1942


1. Work more and better
2. Work by a schedule
3. Wash teeth if any
4. Shave
5. Take bath
6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk
7. Drink very scant if any
8. Write a song a day
9. Wear clean clothes — look good
10. Shine shoes
11. Change socks
12. Change bed cloths often
13. Read lots good books
14. Listen to radio a lot
15. Learn people better
16. Keep rancho clean
17. Dont get lonesome
18. Stay glad
19. Keep hoping machine running
20. Dream good
21. Bank all extra money
22. Save dough
23. Have company but dont waste time
24. Send Mary and kids money
25. Play and sing good
26. Dance better
27. Help win war — beat fascism
28. Love mama
29. Love papa
30. Love Pete
31. Love everybody
32. Make up your mind
33. Wake up and fight

[57Brave]

I mean the whole damn point of the Nativity story is that the supposed son of God (interpret Jesus how you ****ing want, of course) was born to a couple of poor, exhausted peasants in the stable for the inn, and his first bed was a feeding trough for animals. That would nowadays be like a poor couple where the mother gives birth in a parking garage behind the motel because they couldn’t find a better place and nobody else would take them in. It’s a pretty gritty setting, and the idea is that God was reborn in some of the rock-bottom lowest circumstances. The only thing majestic was all the angels and ****, and of course motherly love

I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on

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