Getting in the Holiday Spirit
Saw Lizbud's thread by this title in the Dog House - entirely different subject than what it brought to mind for me. What puts you in the holiday spirit? As the stores have had "Christmas" things on display since September in some cases, don't count that one bit. I try to ignore that entirely, as a matter of fact.
We usually spend Thanksgiving at Paul's sister's house in New Hampshire, so in the car on the way back home, usually play either the Muppet Christmas Carol CD, or the Charlie Brown Christmas one. That music playing as the car travels down a dark highway really signals the beginning of the season for me.
Other prompts - the evergreens, fragrant and fresh, that go on sale at the local produce market - I walk past them and quietly inhale the scent and am transported.
And every day, more people put up their Christmas lights, and as sunset is so early - it was setting at 4:15 after a cool grey day, bright gold on the Western horizon silhouetting the bare grey branches of a million deciduous trees gone into winter sleep - so the lights on house get switched on, on fences and trees, and whatever whimsy strikes, and they cheer the dark streets.
What heralds the season for you?
