Lola by Todd Clark for December 04, 2023

What if they only have store bought?

Well, that’s what Santa does. But he has to leave presents, too.

That’s called mummering

That actually was a tradition a few centuries ago. Remember the old song “Now bring us a figgy pudding”

We still carol in my small town. Always get hot chocolate and cookies from neighbors.

Christmas carolling is a thing, yes? We always went with friends the week before Christmas.

I would love some homemade fudge. I have a recipe I need to look up.

Miss the days of home made fudge and christmas cheer, seems it’s like pulling teeth now to get anyone to do anything that might risk involving actual effort and happiness. Guess they’d rather doom scroll through social media

Well Monty, in some cultures it actually is pretty much that way except that people bring the cookies and little cake when they visit you and you do the same when you visit others. It’s just not the “Merican” way, where the commercialism of Christmas is the prime objective of the holiday.

The Germans take this practice literally, for there Christmas is celebrated on both Christmas day AND the day afterward. The realized that it takes time for family, and friends, to visit and be visited and dedicate two days to this act of love, caring, and kindness.

We could start “caroling” again. I remember getting treats along the way. Maybe I was just naturally adorable.

Seems Monty read yesterday’s Cornered.

I tried to start a caroling at home tradition. I asked my friends to pass it on that at 7 pm during the week before Christmas, I would sing Silent Night on my balcony in hopes that my friends and neighbors would join me and that people around the world would join in.

You can do it, you just have to sing