Best Wishes And Joyeux Noël
Merry Christmas and thank you all for such wonderful support.
The frequency with which I post will be a little erratic over the next few weeks as I try (usually in vain) to take my social media detox over Christmas. I will probably make a few appearances on the live-stream circuit. I’ll also be in my usual slot seeing out Millenniyule on the 30th of December.
In the meantime here is our annual Christmas Classic Movies, this year we’re discussing the World War I drama Joyeux Noël and the Christmas Day Truce of 1914. I thought Endeavour’s monologue toward the end on men finding mutual brotherhood and empathy was very much on point. For me, the highlight was the German Christmas trees lined up on the trenches symbolizing a re-enchantment of the ‘‘Wasteland’’.
I find that the older I get the more cynically I view the modern world, yet at the same time the more appreciative I become of the immaterial, the sacred, and the enchanted.
All this ruminating on magical moments allows me to segue into a little story I’d like to relate.
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