A German Christmas
Taken from Doing December Differently - Book
contributor: Sue Vickerman (Wild Goose Publ)
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A German Christmas
I think lots of people feel similarly to me. My positive feelings about Christmas – the excitement of anticipation, the wistfulness and nostalgia, the moments of optimism about peace and goodwill between all peoples (sorry but it’s so hard to avoid cliché at Christmas) – are countered by pangs of emptiness; by an unease graduating into disgust at the tinselly superficiality, the consumerism and the canned laughter; by waves of disappointment, moments of melancholy, and an occasional nudging elbow of depression.
I have been together with my German girlfriend for a dozen years, and our Christmases in that time have been spent either with her parents in their village on Germany’s border with France, or with my parents on an English housing estate, and, twice only, in our own home – once with, and once without, friends staying...
Taken from Doing December Differently by Nicola Slee and Rosie Miles. Click here
I think lots of people feel similarly to me. My positive feelings about Christmas – the excitement of anticipation, the wistfulness and nostalgia, the moments of optimism about peace and goodwill between all peoples (sorry but it’s so hard to avoid cliché at Christmas) – are countered by pangs of emptiness; by an unease graduating into disgust at the tinselly superficiality, the consumerism and the canned laughter; by waves of disappointment, moments of melancholy, and an occasional nudging elbow of depression.
I have been together with my German girlfriend for a dozen years, and our Christmases in that time have been spent either with her parents in their village on Germany’s border with France, or with my parents on an English housing estate, and, twice only, in our own home – once with, and once without, friends staying...
Taken from Doing December Differently by Nicola Slee and Rosie Miles. Click here
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