I have my Christmas pizza from Round Table Pizza, my coconut cake from Pepperidge Farm and a big bottle of Diet Cherry 7up. I’m all set. It’s chilly here in Merced, and it’s raining. We’re having a wet Christmas, and that’s a good thing.
I hope you have a good time tonight and tomorrow no matter if you celebrate or not—or, if you do, how you celebrate or what you celebrate—no matter if you’re with friends and family or if you’re alone like me.
I don’t take Christian mythology literally, and I know Christmas was appropriated from ancient pagan celebrations by the early Christians. But I still love Christmas, everything from its dodgy history to the goofy secular aspects to Silent Night. I think a wild, over the top celebration of the birth of a baby during the darkest time of the year (for those of us who live north of the Equator) is a great idea. I think it’s about the hope that we will band together and live to see the return of spring.
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