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Today is the 2nd day of the 49th week, the 5th day of the 12th month, the 340th day of 2016, and: 
  • AFL-CIO Day
  • Bathtub Party Day
  • Columbian International Day of The Reef
  • International Ninja Day
  • International Volunteer Day [for Economic & Social Development]
  • Krampus
  • National Blue Jeans Day
  • National Communicate With Your Kids Day
  • National Commute With Your Baby Day
  • National Sacher Torte Day
  • Repeal Day
  • World Soil Day
ON THIS DAY:  In 63 BC Cicero declaimed the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.  In 1700 a severe influenza epidemic hits the people of Montréal.  In 1766, in London, James Christie held his first sale.  In 1848, in a message to the United States Congress, US President James K Polk confirmed that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.  In 1890 Québec strongman Louis Cyr lifts 490 lbs with one finger; working with the P.T. Barnum circus.  In 1901 Walt Disney was born in Chicago.  In 1933, national Prohibition came to an end in the US as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.  In 1958 subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) was inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she spoke to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.  In 1964 Lloyd J. Old discovered the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.

The holiday season is pretty ubiquitous and I really don’t know how you can possibly avoid having it shoved in your face at every turn:  songs on the radio and via Muzak, decorations abounding, friends posting pictures across social media, holiday lights shining in the dark.   I spent a great deal of time in Second Life decorating my home there.  In real life things are more subdued in the apartment – at the moment I only have a wreath on the door.  I tend not to be able to get into the holiday spirit sometimes and I deal with it one of two ways – either try and decorate figuring that will generate the feeling or settle for enjoying other people’s displays.    Oddly?  I never questioned the need to put up a tree, not once, until the year Frank died on that Thursday morning.  We had planned to put up all the decorations that weekend and needless to say, I didn’t do anything that year.  In fact, I was intensely grateful that I didn’t have to go through the sad work of putting everything away while I was dealing with my grief.  Nowadays?  Sometimes I really just don’t feel like decorating the apartment, especially since I know that I am not getting any company, because it feels a bit like a refuge from all the holiday blitz and bustle. 

Every now and then I wonder what it is like this time of year if you do not celebrate Christmas [whether we are talking about religious or secular celebrations].   How does one cope with the relentless onslaught when it doesn’t mean anything to you?  What do you tell your children as the different ads air on TV, not the mention the spate of holiday-themed specials?  While I most emphatically do not agree with washing the holiday season out and rendering it bland – I would much prefer to celebrate everyone’s observances.  And  I have to admit that for some -- whether it is a matter of belief, grief,  being away from home/family, or having to work -- Christmas is just another day.   
 
Guess I have let the Krampus get to me.  I’ll work on it
Permalink | Monday, December 5, 2016