new tidings
.
latest archive about email links yearbook japan photoblog wish list	Tue Dec 05 00 / 4:46 AM As if it is already December 5. Sweet mother. So I've gone a bit Christmas-y around here, and it's different than all the dec25ths before. As I grew up, I took on more and more of the responsibility of decorating the house for Christmas, and I always prefer my own decorating taste. When I moved into my Dad's house, I found he had the same idea: I would wake up one day in December and the apartment would be completely X-mas-ized without me. Although Christmas is Christmas, more or less. Still, this year it is almost another dimension different - I think it's because it's not only Christmas that I'm representing with green and white and light. I go out and buy something bright to make me happy, and I put it in my house where it looks best to me. And all of a sudden I have started the first year in a tradition that is going to continue forever. Christmas is my own holiday now to plan and annualize. It's no longer something I wake up to or something I help with; it's something I have to make if I want it. And while it's still a family affair, it's so very odd to reconcile the fact that Christmas is really now a day, instead of a season.
	</>
Lisa Higgs
.