When your granddaughter builds a snowman that looks like Calvin- from Calvin an Hobbes fame- could have built, you know you’ve raised your children right:
Calvin and Hobbes Snowmen of Horror
” The Redeyed Snowman of Doom “
Snowman by Jemma
Photo by J.M. Moscoso
RDP Prompt: The Day After
The Day after Christmas
just as my alarm went off this morning
and before I even opened my eyes
I wondered if it was going to snow, eventually
I wondered if I should have eaten more instead of less.
I took a breath-just a little breath- and then
I opened my eyes, and I asked myself
the most important questions of all:
How many days is it until Halloween?
Word of the Day Challenge: MAGI
I joined some Christmas pages at Facebook because the posts on these pages featured things like pictures of Christmas trees and snapshots of winter scenes and all kinds of decorations. There were also the usual Baby Jesus in a manager with the the Christmas star hanging over head prints. Krampus was starting to show up too.
I am fond of the vintage Santa pictures. They’re festive. I’m also fond of Krampus.
Of course some posts hit the religious aspects pretty hard, and by hitting it hard I mean that Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus didn’t look like they came from the Middle East and in one memorable meme Mary had a Farrah Fawcett hairdo. Those posts were relentless. I get it, I get it, Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus were as pure and white as the driven snow. They weren’t brown, they weren’t even slightly beige. They were white. White, white white…alright we get it already.
To be honest, I don’t care what color people want to paint the holy family, it’s really not important in the grand scheme of things. The birth of Jesus is a story about hope and I love stories about hope.
Just as a historical sidenote- the Wisemen who were from the East- they were Kings( as the story goes ) Kings didn’t ride camels, they would have rode on horseback and if that isn’t a powerful image, I don’t know what is.
Leopold Kupelwieser, The Three Kings riding to Bethlehem: Whenever you see movies about this time period, the actors are riding on camels. However, people in northern Arabia typically only rode Arabian horses. At the time of Christ’s birth, camels were used as pack animals, but wealthy travelers used the more comfortable and swift hors
But then along with Mary looking like Farah Fawcett, the the ones of Santa kneeling at Baby Jesus’ cradle started to pop up.
Like I said, I could understand the need for some people to put forth the image of Mary being pure and pristine with her Farrah Fawcett hairdo, I didn’t understand why anyone felt the need to force Santa- who we can agree on is a fictional character- to his knees and for him to then humble himself like this:
I suppose this is Christian Extremists’ way of reminding us WHO Christmas really ‘belongs’ too (spoiler alert, it ain’t really Jesus to his biggest supporters, Sports Fans ) and in that- if you know what’s good for you you’ll admit it TO THEM that you agree and you will do it while you are on your knees.
The thing about that boot on the back of the neck thing- it just begs for someone or a lot of ‘someones’ to rebel.
I’m willing to hang around to see what form that movement takes , but given Krampus is becoming a thing for Christmas now I think it’s already started.
The Yule Cat and Krampus
AKA The Perfect Storm
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