Thanksgiving has come and gone,and I feel it is okay to hang the outside Christmas decorations. I know many will say we need to conserve this year, and it is best not to decorate for Christmas. Please, can't we cut back a little but still enjoy. Is not the message of this holiday, hope?Cannot our lights be a beacon to show us there is a future.
If you do not continue some of your usual habits at Christmas, you will wreck the economy even more. Boy Scouts need you to buy their trees to fund their programs. We can't put them out of business. If you don't send Christmas cards, then the postal carriers will be reduced in numbers.(Email is not the way to say ho,ho, ho.) Not attending musical programs, plays, and other special Christmas traditions will just make things worse. The Guthrie will be putting on a "Christmas Carol" weather we like it or not. We need to support those actors and other people involved in the production.
I agree we all need to get conservative in our spending. It is not possible for everyone to participate like they used to. Still, if everyone did one event the season would not be so bad. What will those limo drivers drive their customer past if you don't hang lights, have the plastic Rudolf shinning bright, and make your place look as close to "Joe's Bar and Grill" as you can? Make a list of all the people who will be effected if you dig yourself in a hole and not come out until all this has past.
This is not the first or the last of our troubling times. Do not forget we are Minnesotans. We know how to bear wind chills, push cars out of snow drifts, make that tatter tot casserole stretch to feed a few more, and how to reach out to others. We need not fear the present as we know what it is. We cannot lose sight of what we have by being scared. Climb that ladder, freeze your fingers as you hang those lights, try to make Rudolf stand on frozen ground, keep the holiday spirit so those going by will be embraced by it and spread the spirit too. I know we can do it.
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