Light.Warmth.Experimentation. My first Athiest Christmas season

[stellaspike]

Having found the words to describe my experience of life in the last year or so, hints of it have lingered in every corner of my life for many years.Consider the name of this blog "Zebras and other reasons to believe there is a plan." is one of them, though I will go into that later, I want to talk about my experimentation with the holidays

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[finickynarcane]

For years I've claimed to celebrate Capitalism in December. This year, I went way UNDERboard. The two items I purchased were for the host and hostess of dinner on Christmas day. Both were from vendors at booths near mine at one show or another. The other "gift" I gave was the colored paper I've been collecting all year. That went to my friend who wants colored paper to make his paper out of. He thought it was a fine thing.

[stellaspike]

but who is setting the Under-board bar for you?

[finickynarcane]

I am. It is a comparison between this year and my own previous years. At the height of my gift giving, I would buy things all year long, when a saw something appropriate, for those people to whom I was giving gifts. I never went "Christmas shopping". One of those years also saw the pinnacle of gift wrapping. One box took me six hours to wrap and three full spools of curling ribbon.

[stellaspike]

ah ok so you set your own standard.

[ladycelia]

I really just want to spend time with loved ones in the dark part of the year, with some twinkly lights and wonderful food, and that's it.

This.