IF we could walk in the Christmas spirit every day of the year, oh! wouldn't that be wonderful.
My childhood Christmases were made so amazing by my parents and siblings, that when I left childhood behind it did affect my Christmas. As I grew up, grew older, the season started taking on nightmarish sort of unfolding ... often involving the people with whom I was trying to spend it.
Eventually, I shrugged off all company and started doing solo Christmas days. I would go to a movie and then head home to meditate, pray, write, listen to whatever classic movie was playing on the neighbour's TV.
After a few years of this I noticed that the season grew enjoyable again. I would get into the swing of things leading up to it: cleaning and buying gifts and singing carols as I walked and worked. Then Christmas morning I would awake with a sweet burning glow in my chest and my eyes feeling "merry and bright."
It's like I was a child again.
I love Christmas. I love what it represents: peace and love and joy to the world.I wish people would fight down the really negative things affecting their fellow man, the way they fight down things like Christmas.
I love Christmas. Because I learned to walk in Christmas inside of me, whether by myself; whether in May, September; whether I have money or times are hard ... and they have often been.
Christmas is not the season. Christmas is a philosophy.
Try to take it into the New Year with you, in you, out of you to as many people as you can manage in your humanity.All the photos I put with this post were taken on Christmas Day 2018. I went walking alone around Port-of-Spain with the thought I would capture images boasting the colours of the Trinidad and Tobago flag: red, black and white.
Happy Christmas & a Wonderful New Year!
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