Merry Christmas to all...?
Permit me to begin by highlighting what this holiday meant to Henry Miller:
"Since attaining manhood I had never known a good Christmas. No matter how I fought against it, Christmas Day always found me in the bosom of the family - the melancholy knight wrapped in his black armor, forced like every other idiot in Christendom to stuff his belly and listen to the utterly empty babble of his kin ... if only it were the celebration of the birth of a free spirit!"
And now, a chronicle of the tidings brought forth to "free spirits" the world over:
Five killed in Haiti slum raid
Ethiopia pushes deeper into Somalia
Darfur in crisis, still
Japan executes four prisoners by hanging
Series of bombings in Iraq kills at least fifteen
Battle over control of village kills fourteen Colombian national soldiers
...and, to top it all off...
Goldman Sachs boss gets $53.4 million dollar Christmas bonus
So, ladies and gentlemen, if you find yourselves to be the "melancholy knight wrapped in black armor" at the table again, here are but a few of the many discussion pieces you can use to break the monotony of the "utterly empty babble" of your kin. Let's see how much "Peace on Earth" really matters to our loved ones.
posted by G. @ 10:45
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I am 53 yrs old and with that have seen many of the Holidays that Henry Miller so poinaintly [msp]describes. My mother LOVED Christmas and I called it one of many "command performances". We were all required to participate. She died 7 yrs ago and with her died Christmas. I used to Hate all that "hoopla" !!! Now, now that she is gone and Christmas is gone with her,I miss it. Hold tight to a few of those silly family gatherings. You may wish to visit the memories in your older years.
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