A Christmas Thought

I am having a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit this year, which has placed undue stress on my blogger’s heart. Fortunately, I am quite lucky to be surrounded by unique people with very creative minds. Not only is this Christmas tradition fun and entertaining, but it’s a financial God send for those of us who aren’t among the one percenters, and it’s a humane act for those poor neglected trees out there. Having said that, what follows is written by Chuck Guerra. His pithy commentary and delightful turns of phrase always warm my heart.

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Soon, it will be time to begin my annual Christmas tree rescue campaign. Each year, thousands of unsold Christmas trees are just discarded on December 24th, like so many unwanted puppies or kitties. The exploiters of the tree community just throw them on the street, waiting on the frozen asphalt to be picked up and ground into mulch.

Many years ago, I decided to do something about this inhumane practice. My children and I would go out to these “death lots” and pick up as many of these discarded creatures as we could fit in my truck and bring them to our house. We would set them up in the yard and decorate them. One year we rescued 15 or so and kept them until Valentine’s Day, when their time was done.

One lucky creature was chosen for our living room, which we decorated with the usual tinkle and garblins, etc. I am a socially responsible and caring man, who sees the irony of buying a $75.00 Scotch Pine and just throwing it away at New Years.

So, if you can just realize that Jesus Christ was born on December 11, 3 B.C. , maybe this Druid holiday could be offset by a week or so in your minds and you can see that Christmas, as most people observe it, is the celebration of the birth of the gross national product.

Amen and Amenhotep

Author: The View from a Drawbridge

I have been a bridgetender since 2001, and gives me plenty of time to think and observe the world. View all posts by The View from a Drawbridge