| Blog Entry - Friday, December 12th, 2003 | Add / Read (4) |
Considering the fact that we're in the process of packing up and selling the house and the fact that we're actually spending the holidays themselves in Houston and Belize, we're not doing what you'd call a lot of holiday decorating around our house this year. Nor have I yet done any shopping, other than one or two things online, since I've basically been out of town since 11 October. So, it's taken *much* longer than usual for me (usually known as the spirit of Christmas personified) to get into the Christmas spirit.
Seeing this story on Cnn.com helped though:
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's a Wonderful Life" are back.
Few programs -- and, despite "Wonderful Life's" film pedigree, it was only through endless showings on television that it really became a cultural touchstone -- have expressed the hopes and spirit of the season so well.
Both have genuine moments of despair.
Whose heart doesn't sink when Charlie Brown puts the ornament
on the little tree, and then -- watching it perilously bend -- cries, "I
killed it!" Who doesn't weep when Jimmy Stewart, as
George Bailey, hears from Clarence that Mary is "an old maid"?
Author: Libby
Posted at: 03:32:56 PM
