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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (68662)	12/26/1999 12:29:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

<<Compare and contrast with an unnamed relative's -turkey bloat, big tree, lotsa decorations, a heavily Santacentric affair with boxes and paper up to their armpits. I admit I don't miss that.>> I agree wholeheartedly, Lather! I am very happy that we have a tree, and the ornaments are beautiful, and we made a lot of them over the years, and a lot of them are blown glass fish and cats and angels and teddies because everyone in our family loves those. It is really a lot of memories hanging on a tree that we chopped down ourselves while traipsing about in the country on a brisk cold day through grove after grove at the tree farm until the one perfect tree revealed itself to us. The rest of it is exhaustion and sore feet during the heavy shopping days, and after the presents are all unwrapped the remains strewn all over the living room seem almost vulgar. No one can really get exactly what they want for Christmas, because after everything is opened, it strikes home again that material gifts remind us that the hunger inside is for love, security, and more time to enjoy the beauty of nature more than a yearning for stuff. I really respect families who get each other just one present, or give themselves the gift of travel. But I do hope you get that stereo amplifier! Music transcends the material!!