And So It Begins November 24th 2023
It's the start of the season. The Happy Season. My favourite season. I love the lights, the music, the food, my wife's home made egg nog. I love the first Christmas story. I love Christmas movies like Scrooge, Home Alone, Last Christmas. I even love some of the Harlequin formula movies...... one of them features my cousin's daughter Tess. I love fruit cake. I love the dickens out of Christmas. I love the Dicken's Christmas for that matter. I think I have made my point And then there is the other side: The season of too much. The season of too expensive. The season of expectation that inevitably has some kind of let down at some point. The season of togetherness that is oh so lonely for so many. And seriously? I know all those things about Christmas. But the Happy Season trumps all of them. I spent a couple of Christmases alone. ...