Well, it’s beginning to feel a lot like....well, not perzackly Christmas but more like the end of November...I dunno if November is anybody’s fav’rite month seeing as how it’s usually grey ‘n cold....still, it’s better’n February, what with Thanksgiving ‘n all ‘n of course, it kicks off what has become known as THE HOLIDAY SEASON....
In my way back when time, the holiday season was different than it is t’day ....Thanksgiving, of course, was big but then there was a long lapse of time before the Christmas season began...seems t’me that I always remember Halloween as a harvest festival thing that kind’a kickstarted Thanksgiving ‘n then there was this long, cold, dreary, grey November that dragged on ‘n on until the magical Christmas suddenly appeared in a rush....a Christmas vacation from school, streets ‘n stores were decorated almost overnite ‘n package-laden people thronged....there were Christmas songs ‘n Christmas cheer ‘n ev’ry day the children looked for snow....’course, the snow almost never came....white Christmas’s seemed to exist only in the movies ‘n stories ‘n the minds ‘n mem’ries of old people...it took me 70 years but I finally figured out how that happened....
It’s still a magical time for children ‘n old people ‘n for at least a few moments, maybe for all the unbelieving inbetweeners also...at least, the lucky ones.....
The talking heads are bemoaning the stuck in a rut Congress ‘n the enormity of the deficit ‘n all the dire things of the world but when I was a small boy the USA was caught in the grip of what came t’be known as ‘The Great Depression’...we survived that ‘n some of my fondest mem’ries come from the Christmas’ of that era...the world seems caught up in another great depression but the world will survive ‘n some day this will be somebodys memory ..
I’m just sayin.....
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