Whatever feels like a gift that day.
2014
Since I'm a present giving and receiving demon, any reason to open presents is a good one. Suffice it to say I love, Love, LOVE Advent Calendars, for exactly 24 reasons. I like to create unusual Advents. A tradition where the containers go to live with their gift receiver for the month of December, then come back to me so I can put them away and refill them anew the following year. So I thought why not give a present every day starting December 1st, 2014 (3 days from now) so that anyone who finds this blog can enjoy/open them? I am an Artist, Oil Painter, Papermaker, Writer, Luxurious Nutritioner and Lover of all things beautiful. The daily gifts might include my or others' photographs or artwork, recipes, Prophet quotes, film or music clips. Whatever feels like a gift that day. |
I am not religious and I am well aware of the original intent of the holiday. Nor am I a soulless materialist. I truly love Christmas and the feeling I get from the lights, sparkly things, fellow-Christmas lovers, the nostalgia of a life collecting ornaments (1 per year), a cup of hot cocoa, and a book in a cushy chair on a snowy day with a warm sleeping kitty, under my tree. This holiday makes a lot of people happy for a lot of different reasons and I'm one of them.
I am a broke college student and even if I was wealthy, I wouldn't run away from the subtle feeling and "true meaning" of Christmas by blindly spending myself into oblivion. I agree with the disdain over the commercialization of Christmas. Black Friday gets more and more violent to the senses every year. I have personally boycotted Black Friday for years by not buying one damn thing on the day of.
So in the true essence of Christmas (and this is all I have to give this year) I hope you enjoy opening your 24 presents, one day at a time, until Christmas.
I am a broke college student and even if I was wealthy, I wouldn't run away from the subtle feeling and "true meaning" of Christmas by blindly spending myself into oblivion. I agree with the disdain over the commercialization of Christmas. Black Friday gets more and more violent to the senses every year. I have personally boycotted Black Friday for years by not buying one damn thing on the day of.
So in the true essence of Christmas (and this is all I have to give this year) I hope you enjoy opening your 24 presents, one day at a time, until Christmas.