Some things make a post

[landingtree]

Fish could swim through today's weather. One good remnant of being in a choir - though I haven't sung in one since just before the pandemic, when Robert Oliver the sparkling and venerable retired - is that when I'm walking outside in the rain I can sing 'The heavens are telling the glory of God' with varying proportions of sincerity and irony depending on how much I resent it.

(It remains odd how many of the songs that come to mind to sing as I walk through the city are deeply Christian. Partially Catholic choir succeeded family carol singing. Christmas carols come to my mind no matter the season; I try not to sing them where others can hear, for fear anyone who's ever worked retail at Christmas time might be driven to murder).

I've now been working in the same garden for long enough that I'm pruning and cutting down trees I myself planted. This is gradually curing me of my prejudice that one should never cut down trees, why would one plant them if one was only going to cut them down? New vistas and layered views.

This dear... old laptop? no, I got it two years ago, this dear young piece of inbuilt obsolescence, is currently thinking very hard and with much whirring of fans before it will agree to do a google search. This post scuttles out of the sinking ship.

Comments

[rachelmanija]

I just wanted to say that I received a very pleasant surprise. Thank you very much! I look forward to reading it.

[landingtree]

Oh good! Glad it made it.

[oracne]

This is indeed a post!

Hymns and carols easily pop into my mind as well. They're meant to be catchy and singable, perhaps that's why?

[landingtree]

Yes, I suspect so - that and sheer number of times I've been exposed to many of them, misprints and all, in the family carol sheets.

[sartorias]

There's some really beautiful music written for Christmas. But at stores all we hear is the irritating commercial crap, because they are trying to remove any sign of religion, whether Christian or older, and keep the eye firmly on symbols like dancing presents and elves that bring presents and stuff that is supposed to cause a buying frenzy.

[landingtree]

There is! We don't get the best of it in stores, but my impression has been that we get a bit more of the mentioning-Christ end of the spectrum. Maybe I'm just assuming that, though, it would surprise me if New Zealand had more of it than the States, I believe we have a much smaller proportion of Christians.