Mon 24 Dec 2007
Recently I video interviewed a couple dozen people and asked them about their holiday memories and Christmas remembrances. Responses varied from talk of a treasured Christmas oven to Christmas Pajamas to the recognition of blessings and family. You can watch all of those videos (417 viewed so far.) UPDATE: I’ve enabled higher resolution clips for your ease of viewing (now 640×480 instead of 320×240.)
But the question remains– what does Christmas mean to ME?
Well, when I think of Christmas, I think of: watching “The Grinch Stole Christmas” and “Mr Krueger’s Christmas”, snapping together the family’s artificial tree after lugging it from the dark depths of the basement, a crackling wood fire, unwrapping gifts round-robin-style, stuffing myself with turkey and then falling asleep on the carpet, sister Kristen reminding us that since her birthday falls on Christmas she deserves twice the presents, making a large Buddha for Dad’s gift, the annual drama of taking the family photo, the fight for the longest paragraph in the family newsletter, whole pecans from a Southern Aunt, listening to Handel’s Messiah, visiting the crazy relatives, church with the fam, gag gifts from my older brother, singing “the Christmas song” (O Holy Night), having to wait until 8AM before opening presents, failed attempts at present wrapping (some involving masking tape…) and lots of laughing with the family.
What does Christmas mean to YOU?
December 31st, 2007 at 12:17 am
To me Christmas means sitting on Ryan Byrd’s lap while he excitedly reads excerpts to me from his new books he got for Christmas. Did you get books this year?
Christmas also means reading Ryan’s annual blog about the year’s blog entries. Is there going to be one this year?
January 1st, 2008 at 11:32 am
Hi Char! As expected, Ryan did get a load of books this year from the fam.
AND there will be an annual blog entry today about this past year’s entries. You’ll be amazed at all the essays and rants and adventures and controversy!