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| There are so many traditions of various origins. I don't really follow any these days (years). When I was young, we had a neighbor who said it was bad luck for a woman to visit your home on New Year's Day. It made me wonder why she brought us back luck by coming into our house. My mother claimed that you had to take down the Christmas decorations on New Year's Day or you would have sickness in the household. Now I know people who don't take them down until Epiphany which is January 6 (observed the second Sunday after Christmas in church). I have known two women who had spectacular trees that stayed up all year long! Everything else came down, but not the trees. Some people can't wait to take them down, maybe as early as the day after. All my relatives had oyster stew for Christmas breakfast. For the first day, it was black eyed peas, cornbread, stewed tomatoes, and cornbread and any kind of meat (leftovers?). Today the younger ones prefer pizza or gyros. I stick with beans and tomatoes. It's a vegetarian day for me. I take down the decorations after the first, a little at a time, because I'm lazy and because I didn't get to enjoy them enough while they were up. When I was much younger and generally feeling better, I would sing every Christmas song I knew. I don't sing that much any more, and I didn't get saturated with seasonal songs this year. I never once heard the hippopotamus song or Alvin sing he wants a hula hoop. Traditions don't mean as much without a family. So I can go with the flow or not. I don reminisce quite a bit early on about my parents and brothers, even my late ex-husband. But we can't live in the past. And we don't need to make new traditions. Just live in the moment. |
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These days I just have houseplants and one lonely portulaca that came up by seed and has bloomed this past week. I've been "home" for three months and the plants have responded well. But, I long for Thailand.
. Isn't it funny how we take things like electricity and plumbing for granted... until we don't have them. Happy for you!