Advent Calendar Day 19/20/21
December 21st, 2011 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunadelcorvo(So I'm behind on a daily meme? In other news, night dark, and water wet.)
Day 19: A favorite Holiday memory. I don't know if I could pick out one single memory. The holidays were (and are!) such a magical time for me, so my memories all blur into a colorful sparkling collage. There are fragments, of course, like the time I wanted to practice wrapping gifts, and wrapped every empty box I could find, using up every scrap of wrapping paper in the house. I had such fun! My folks were less than amused by having to dash out at the last minute to buy more paper, and I became the family gift-wrapper thereafter (though I'm not entirely certain it was meant as an honor!) Or the year my grandfather gave my grandmother an entire set of cookware, and made her hunt all over the house for each individually wrapped piece! She was so mad, but she was laughing the whole time, too. I suppose any of the memories where my family is there, laughing, being silly, and enjoying the fun and magic of the holiday is a favorite memory.
Day 20: Hanukkah wishes I don't celebrate Hanukkah, and I know only one person who does. She was a teacher of mine, intelligent, funny, a bit odd, but a really good person. So in her name, and her honor, I wish one and all the light and joy of Hanukkah.
Day 21: Yule and Solstice Greetings I suppose I celebrate Yule as much as I do Christmas. The heart of the holiday, no matter the myth, is the notion of finding light in the heart of the longest nights. And really, isn't that a deeply inherent human desire, to find hope and renewal in the midst of the darkness?
Day 19: A favorite Holiday memory. I don't know if I could pick out one single memory. The holidays were (and are!) such a magical time for me, so my memories all blur into a colorful sparkling collage. There are fragments, of course, like the time I wanted to practice wrapping gifts, and wrapped every empty box I could find, using up every scrap of wrapping paper in the house. I had such fun! My folks were less than amused by having to dash out at the last minute to buy more paper, and I became the family gift-wrapper thereafter (though I'm not entirely certain it was meant as an honor!) Or the year my grandfather gave my grandmother an entire set of cookware, and made her hunt all over the house for each individually wrapped piece! She was so mad, but she was laughing the whole time, too. I suppose any of the memories where my family is there, laughing, being silly, and enjoying the fun and magic of the holiday is a favorite memory.
Day 20: Hanukkah wishes I don't celebrate Hanukkah, and I know only one person who does. She was a teacher of mine, intelligent, funny, a bit odd, but a really good person. So in her name, and her honor, I wish one and all the light and joy of Hanukkah.
Day 21: Yule and Solstice Greetings I suppose I celebrate Yule as much as I do Christmas. The heart of the holiday, no matter the myth, is the notion of finding light in the heart of the longest nights. And really, isn't that a deeply inherent human desire, to find hope and renewal in the midst of the darkness?
