amicus
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Season’s Greetings and All The Best for the New Year to AH’ers everywhere!
For a reason that I have not yet discovered, I have been watching Christmas programming on several ‘women’s’ channels on television, I.E., Hallmark, Lifetime, OH and some oldies but goodies on TCM and other venues. Much of the programming can be described as one pundit did portraying a single Santa searching for a new Mrs. Claus as, “treacly” , no doubt from a Dickenson working of the English confection,, ‘Treacle’, I think, sweet, sticky mello-drama.
But, the more of the programs I watched and some even tear’d up over, I began to realize that most had a common denominator; that of ‘belief’.
And of course the religion thing, the ‘God’ thing, the Christ in Christmas thing, all plays a role…but beneath and beyond all that, many of these programs touched upon a perhaps innate human desire to ‘believe’ in things magical, beyond the common experience of life.
That desire to believe in life beyond death, of happy endings and the just rewards of an honest and productive life, of doing the ‘right’ things, of being kind, courteous, forgiving, helpful, tolerant, all the virtues, the ‘goody-goodies’ of social propriety fume about.
So, to all Ah’er’s who are really kids at heart and still believe in Santa Claus, good ole St. Nick, Christmas gift giving, celebrating with family and friends that special time of the year….Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you!
Amicus2K7
For a reason that I have not yet discovered, I have been watching Christmas programming on several ‘women’s’ channels on television, I.E., Hallmark, Lifetime, OH and some oldies but goodies on TCM and other venues. Much of the programming can be described as one pundit did portraying a single Santa searching for a new Mrs. Claus as, “treacly” , no doubt from a Dickenson working of the English confection,, ‘Treacle’, I think, sweet, sticky mello-drama.
But, the more of the programs I watched and some even tear’d up over, I began to realize that most had a common denominator; that of ‘belief’.
And of course the religion thing, the ‘God’ thing, the Christ in Christmas thing, all plays a role…but beneath and beyond all that, many of these programs touched upon a perhaps innate human desire to ‘believe’ in things magical, beyond the common experience of life.
That desire to believe in life beyond death, of happy endings and the just rewards of an honest and productive life, of doing the ‘right’ things, of being kind, courteous, forgiving, helpful, tolerant, all the virtues, the ‘goody-goodies’ of social propriety fume about.
So, to all Ah’er’s who are really kids at heart and still believe in Santa Claus, good ole St. Nick, Christmas gift giving, celebrating with family and friends that special time of the year….Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you!
Amicus2K7
