Life and something like it
This shall be a post in three parts. Not because of its longwindedness but rather the disjunctive nature of its subject contence.
Anyway to start matters off its time for another Christmas rant. Now I know there are some of you out there that fully support Christmas and like. And for that I say good on you. However, I for one cannot stand the crass commercialism and the rampant materialism. I loathe the sight of animals dressed in mini-Santa suits. I cannot stand Christmas songs (excepting of course Snoopy's Christmas). Christmas to me means a lot more than all of this stuff. Christmas to me has come to me whanau and whether or not its blood kin or a fictional kinship group I find Christmas to be a time when families can come together and try to express for a day how much they mean to each other. I know that I am looking at this from the background of a person who comes from a Christian family etc. and therefore it is not universal. But to me that is more important than merely receiving gifts. Showing loved ones that you care and appreciate them. Anyway, that is what started Christmas in the first post God loved us enough to give us the gift of his Son. I know its really cheesy and cliched but there is a reason why some things become cliches.
On a completely unrelated topic I got called an extrovert today!!!!!
Anyway to start matters off its time for another Christmas rant. Now I know there are some of you out there that fully support Christmas and like. And for that I say good on you. However, I for one cannot stand the crass commercialism and the rampant materialism. I loathe the sight of animals dressed in mini-Santa suits. I cannot stand Christmas songs (excepting of course Snoopy's Christmas). Christmas to me means a lot more than all of this stuff. Christmas to me has come to me whanau and whether or not its blood kin or a fictional kinship group I find Christmas to be a time when families can come together and try to express for a day how much they mean to each other. I know that I am looking at this from the background of a person who comes from a Christian family etc. and therefore it is not universal. But to me that is more important than merely receiving gifts. Showing loved ones that you care and appreciate them. Anyway, that is what started Christmas in the first post God loved us enough to give us the gift of his Son. I know its really cheesy and cliched but there is a reason why some things become cliches.
On a completely unrelated topic I got called an extrovert today!!!!!
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Hey wasn't it cool how Father Christmas in the new Narnia film was not a Coca Cola Father Christmas? Not a spot of red or white or green upon him! He actually looked like a real live person. (Also gave functioning weapons as gifts to children, but that's just part of his coolness.)
I almost hate to ask b/c it's probably something that everyone knows except me, and I hate to reveal my ignorance...but...What is "whauna"?
FYI "whanau" is a Maori word used to refer to the extended family. It expresses those kinship ties that bind the family together.
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