Is it just me, or does everything taste better this time of year. Coffee tastes better, wine tastes better, cookies taste better, kisses from my wife (these always feel magical, but none the less they feel extra good), all of it. My theory is that Christmas is magical. Duh--we all know this right, and if you don't think it is magical anymore . . . well, then perhaps you're heart has shrunk. I believe that Christmas owes a lot of it's magical feel to lights. Lights are a big deal, for they stir within the human nervous system a hypersensitivity to everything our little synapses can handle. It is so fitting that light should lead the charge in holiday spirit. Fitting because Christ was light to the world. Light in literature is always symbolic with hope, rejuvenation and life. This is true outside the realm of literature, not just in film and art, but in real life too. Light brings clarity, perspective, and most important, life (ask anyone who suffers from seasonal depression). Christ is light and Christ is life.
My dad, when talking of his life before he was a Christian, says that Christmas always housed, for him, an inordinate amount of hope. Hope for what I am not sure, perhaps just hope for hopes sake, but none the less there is this intrinsic quality about Christmas--even with all the commercialization. It is a season that is shot through with a magical air of light, life, and hope.
I should also mention that yesterday I saw, right around mile 13 of my 18 mile rain run, a vary large Bald Eagle perched high up in a tree over the river trail. It was massive, and majestic--it was a Christmas miracle.
5 comments:
i personally just line the walls of my bedroom with thomas kinkade paintings so that i have an abundance of light year round.
Thank you bald eagle for your Christmas miracle.
Oh man! Kinkade is ridiculous. Besides being an artist who's style I loath, did you also know that he has multiple law suits adding up to almost 3.5 mill against him for fraud. Apparently he would over charge his dealers by an exorbitant price and then turn around and sell the same prints for much less at discount stores and then not allow dealers to lower their prices. Not to mention how he used his Christianity as persuasive leverage when pitching his galleries to investors.
Other research reveals that he has been notably drunk in public on several occasions--one in which he belligerently mocked Sigfreid and Roy about their cod pieces during their show. But this is speculative.
Way to go painter of light
I have never heard that about Thomas Kincade. Crazy
Thanks honey......your kisses always feel magical as well. :)
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