13 Days of Christmas…let your Red Nose shine!

 ON THE THIRTEENTH  DAY OF CHRISTMAS?

This blog has  featured a whole stocking full of Christmas  topics and yet…. Readers seem to enjoy each and every one of them so… this season we’re going  for 12 (counting the previous one)  posts with a “Christmas” or Winter Holiday theme.   Yes as the title suggests we’re going for 13 because  in the pre-Amazon days 12 days of gifts might have been enough…but  come on… let’s go for 13! 

Each of these posts will  open with a thought about  the lyrics to that 12-day. Song and go forward from there or sideways or whatever direction  it goes…

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me… A partridge in a Pear Tree?  

So let’s start with the tree.  Pears are a good fruit and preserve well.  You can  eat the fruit off the tree, can it, and ferment it.  You can  use pears to practice  lofty wedge shots with  a dull club and get a good idea of how far a shot will go without. A run because pears  usually  don’t roll or splatter  like apples… 

Now as for.a partridge  being in a tree?  Well Keith would rather be out chasing hippy  chicks or fending them off and Danny wouldn’t be  in a tree due to the fact that climbing  would mean too much physical effort… oh what..not that kind of Partridge?   

Well the odds of you finding a real partridge in a pear tree are pretty small since partridges  are “ground” birds much like chickens, turkeys, and the like.  So if your true love gave you a partridge. In a pear tree it’s either. The sign of a rare gift or it’s a fake…and when you get and give a gift for Christmas  I think it’s pretty easy to tell which  really come from the heart and which  ones are trendy trinkets.  

Seeking Peace and Joy  means giving and receiving  genuine  gifts often of time and creative endeavors that extend beyond. Melting one’s VISA.  

Okay let’s move forward…

Channeling You Inner Rudolph

Then one foggy Christmas Eve… 

Well how often do we judge. Ourselves and others only on a cookie cutter set of “normals” and rarely notice what is extraordinary in us or in others.  How often does it take an unusual set of circumstances before  we are able to understand that differences can present solutions and options that will benefit us or others?  How easy is it to take these differences and hide them on our society’s island of misfit toys (or girls and boys)?  

In terms of seeking peace and joy sometimes more is to be found when we let everyone play in reindeer  games and even alter the rules so that.more skills can be shown during the games.  Expecting red noses to show up and finding ways that these lead to other options expands choices and reduces anxieties thus promoting. Peace rather than judging and the belonging that results just might lead to a shared sense of joy.  Yes we can look for and encourage red noses or we can fear every foggy Christmas  eve.  and stop and think about it… what other reindeer has his or her  own song?  Let your red nose shine!