I've lived in the Nashville area for the past 7ish years, and we've had maybe a total of 4 inches of snow on the ground in that time. Sigh. I grew up in Kentucky - only 2 hours north of Nashville - and we had good snows every year, so I've been craving some good snow-ball/man/angel/sled/etc weather. I'm up in Ky for the next couple of days, and I'm hoping that the white stuff might fall from the sky while I'm here. COME ON SNOW!
Besides not getting to make a fort with my 30 year old brothers, this Christmas has been great. Hanging out with family, eating too much food, failing miserably at a 3000 piece puzzle, all that good stuff. I'm pretty sad to see how much of America (maybe the world - I don't know how other countries are acting) treats Christmas nowadays, though. All commercialism, no substance. I feel like Linus in the Charlie Brown Christmas special, wanting to jump up on some sort of stage and scream "You're missing the point!"
The point of Christmas is NOT getting stuff! It's not stuffing our faces. It's not even the whole 'tiny tots with their eyes all aglow' stuff. It's called CHRISTmas for a reason. The whole thing is because Jesus Christ was born. I have a number of atheist friends that don't believe He was more than just another man and still celebrate "Christmas" - and that's cool. But we have to agree that that's where this day gets it's roots, and that it's not supposed to be about trampling people at a shopping mall in attempts to save twenty dollars on a color printer. And regardless, hopefully we can all at least get past the commercialism and spend time with each other, reflect on the past, and look hopeful at the future.
So here I am 15 minutes before midnight, hoping you all had a Merry Christmas, and are getting to spend it with people that you love. What did YOU do this Christmas?
Look Dad Creative
Matt "Burn" Lawrence
Dec 26, 2009 @ 6:28am
Well, Dave, I spent Christmas Eve and most of Christmas morning trapped in a truck stop hotel in Cisco, TX. Freaking blizzard in West Texas. What are the odds?
Eric
Dec 26, 2009 @ 8:44pm
I echo you sentiment as a Kentucky Nashvillian. I'm in Louisville and hoping for some snow too, so we'll see.
Clont
Jan 6, 2010 @ 7:48pm
Dec. 25th is the day that the sun finally moves upwards in the sky, by 1 degree. The solstice happens on the 21st, and for 3 days the sun seems to stay in the same spot. Then, like I said, on the 25th it rises. Curiously, the sun sets in the Southern Cross constellation during this time.
So... putting it together, the Sun dies on the cross, lays dead for 3 days, then rises from the dead. Heckuva coincidence.
Watch Zeitgeist. Throw out your dogma for 2 hours, and absorb what a real human is trying to tell you... not a wizard in the sky.
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/