The signs of a changing season are unmissable. Whatever the weather (and today it is truly beautiful here) the impending sound of jingle bells drones in our consciousness and our ears. Today I read an article about “last minute” Christmas gifts”!
It’s December 1, so for the seventh time I’m taking up my yearly sleigh ride around the world heading toward Christmas Day. For the next 24 days, I will write a blog post, following my usual, self imposed rules that each post has to be written on the day and about a topic that comes to me on that day.
Other years I have called this exercise a blogging “Advent calendar” and in a way it is, as I try to capture in blog form the many faces of the Advent and Christmas season as well as other random topics. I always feel that it puts me in closer touch with the season and, I hope, myself.
This morning, as I was preparing to start, I took about an hour to read through posts from the past six times I’ve done this. The first time was in 2011 (for some reason I didn’t write in 2012, I think I was still recovering from writing “30 Blogposts of Summer”). I was amazed by how different my life was then, how different I was then. I also was blown away by how many topics I’ve talked about in 144 posts. How will I find worthwhile things to talk about for another year?
This blogging Advent calendar looks right now like a very blank set of boxes waiting to be filled. My friend David suggested That I write about my suggestions for the college football playoff. Maybe not, but of course I have written about pooping statues in Nativity scenes.
I guess I’ll have to trust the process and trust the season to provide new material and new insights (I do believe I may have finished plumbing the depths of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” but who knows?)
I hope that some of you will walk this road with me. I can’t promise brilliance, or even fruit cake, but I will write about something every day, and I hope I can turn the blank calendar into something worthy of the season.
As always, I welcome your comments.
Image: Blank Advent Calendar (available from Amazon).
Looking forward to following the 2018 Advent journey!
My favorite time of year…24 days of getting in Greg’s head.
Now that you have outed “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” as a rape song, I hope you will do the same to Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer’ as bullying hate literature.
With you Friend