Commercial Establishments Rush the Season.
It’s Happening now.
Two weeks ‘til GivingThanks Day…
Store Windows are being decorated;
Businesses are in full Regalia
Though not a fan of the Commercialism of Christmas
I do like Planning.
And I do like the Kind of Advance Preparation that makes things run Smoothly.
And I Like Christmas! (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on November 15, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/11/15/40-days/
Those of you who know me well know that My Christmas Cards do not make it into the mail until the end of January… This has become somewhat of an annual tradition. They are a Labor of Love; and they take some time…
This Year, I am trying something different. After 35 Years of Cards printed on Red Card Stock in Black Ink with a Gold Stamp, I am posting My Christmas Card for you here. (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on January 28, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/01/28/christmas-card-2013/
Radko Chain Link Garland
Christmas Decorations away…
The usual flood of memories and feelings that accompany the various keepsakes…
One that stands out is a colorful Radko chain link style garland, bought years ago at Bloomingdale’s After-Christmas Sale. Each link is made of countless strands of twirled tinsel. The slightest snag completely ruins the look, and it is prone to unraveling at the smallest inadvertent tug.
Back then, the Clerk who helped us was a middle-aged African American Gentleman. (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on January 9, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/01/09/do-good-work/
Four Days into the New Year.
House still fully decorated …
Still wearing my Christmas Socks and SweatShirt… and wondering if that makes me some kind of lunatic.
The Joyful Noise of Christmas has died down outside my window.
Decorations have come down; Valentines Displays fill the aisles of local stores.
Still, today is technically only the Tenth Day of Christmas. (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on January 4, 2014
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/01/04/season-of-hope-alive/
Happy Fifth Day of Christmas!
Gathering with Friends and Loved Ones
Reminiscing about Christmases Past and those no longer with us…
If you live to be a Hundred, that gives you only one hundred Christmases.
If you only live into your twenties, then it’s twenty-some-odd.
If you make it into your sixties or seventies, then that’s sixty or seventy Christmases in a LifeTime…
However it adds up, it’s a precious few.
So, Enjoy the Season… (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on December 30, 2013
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2013/12/30/gift-of-christmas-present/
When I was in the Amazon RainForest at the Yachana EcoLodge, we were taken to the Water’s edge to observe the Natives of the RainForest panning for gold. I had always imagined that panning for gold involved lifting the pan from the ocean floor and discovering large Gold Nuggets.
Nope… (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on December 27, 2013
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2013/12/27/flecks-of-gold/
A Whole Lotta’ Christmas going on…
If you are like me, you are very much in the throes of it right now, today being the Day Before the Night Before Christmas.
But what if you’re not into it?
What if you were not raised in the Christian Tradition?
What if it feels like everyone gets to have a bright sparkly decorated tree with presents underneath it except you? (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on December 24, 2013
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2013/12/24/enough-with-all-this-goyashim/
Many of us might think, living in the Consumerist Circus of Victor Lebow as we do, that we are now in the midst of the TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS.
This would be incorrect.
Good News for those who feel that they are Way Behind and the Twelve Days have already begun:
They have Not.
We are now, in fact, some seven days from its beginning at all… (more…)
Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on December 18, 2013
https://livethequestionsnow.com/2013/12/18/the-twelve-days-of-christmas/
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