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Merry Christmas
8 years ago
Watching the 1930's A Christmas Carol, thinking of sharp cold, snow, dead batteries and shovelling.
I know many don't care for this time of year in the northern hemisphere, or it's commercialised holiday.
I've spent many a year working retail, and it's a miserable time to be making a living in that market.
Astoundingly, this lovely cloudy evening in northern California my mind travels to bitter windswept nights on Christmas Eve, driving on frozen roads to and from Church.
For myself, winter and Christmas bring very warm memories.
AND odd as it is, sharp cold, snow, dead batteries and shovelling sounds remarkably appealing.
I know many don't care for this time of year in the northern hemisphere, or it's commercialised holiday.
I've spent many a year working retail, and it's a miserable time to be making a living in that market.
Astoundingly, this lovely cloudy evening in northern California my mind travels to bitter windswept nights on Christmas Eve, driving on frozen roads to and from Church.
For myself, winter and Christmas bring very warm memories.
AND odd as it is, sharp cold, snow, dead batteries and shovelling sounds remarkably appealing.
(and because of what he did; telegrapher, towerman clerk, he often worked holidays, but did get plenty of overtime for working them)
(holidays had no effect on the days he worked, his assigned rest days, seldom saturday and sunday either, unless he was working first shift, stayed whatever they were, and if a holiday fell on them, then he had it off anyway, and if it didn't, he got paid something like double time and a half for working them, but work them he still had to. unions were the good thing that made this possible.)
i don't think i ever drove a car to a church. i only explored christianity when i was too young to drive.
(i was part of another religion, the baha'i faith, that met in each other's homes every 19 days, for many years when i was old enough though)
but there's a lot i like about mid winter. true i don't like working outside in bitter cold conditions,
and very few times in my life have i ever had to (though there have been winters when i had no work at all).
never worked in retail either, at least not at the register. worked in plenty of nice warm resteraunt dishwashing rooms though.
and occasionally did prep and backup, and even helped out on the buffet serving line.
(i think i did work outside in winter a couple of times. on the flight line when i was in the air force,
and one year i worked for the maintainence of way for the railroad. i did drive heavy equipment that year. most of what i did in that job.)
what i like is seeing the snow hide the human thoughtlessness and turn the landscape magic by doing so.
well this is out in the wilderness where you don't have city traffic slushing it up.
even in the city though, you know, people try to bring in the smell of pine needles in the cold,
that's a happy and cheerful thing.
peace is the main thing, between all beliefs, not just within one of them.
the whole reason i've ever lived in a city and do so now, is to not have to own a car and the hassles that come with it,
but be able to ride public transportation which i love anyway, and wish fervently there were more of, in and between smaller towns and places.