[bookshare-discuss] Re: Holiday books
- From: "Jana Jackson" <jana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:58:29 -0600
Hi, Mike! Very well-said! I've been enjoying the holiday movies so much
this year, for some reason. I was thinking last night about how this is the
one time of the year when you can find TV programming that consistently
communicates good things--sacrifice, unselfishness, overcoming obstacles,
changing a cynical perspective, etc. So, now I'm off to eat lunch and at
least start scanning another Christmas read to add to that growing
collection. <Smile>
Jana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 5:38 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Holiday books
> Jana
>
> So there's a Mitford Christmas book with Father Tim? I gotta find time to
> download and read that?
>
> A lot of good books have been mentioned. Perhaps what impresses me about
> Christmas literature is a recurring theme of the underdog prevailing, poor
>
> more important than earthly wealth, values triumphing over possessions,
> and similar themes. Out of whack priorities are replaced by substance,
> and a sense of right replaces pompousness.
> We see this in all sorts of titles from the classic Christmas Carol to
> even in Rudolf the Red-Nosed Rheindeer where the much laughed and scorned
> animal becomes the prized lead team member on the sleigh.
> It is too bad that we cannot maintain that same theme in our lives the
> remaining 49-50 weeks of the year where seemingly earthly messages
> dominate the biblical one.
> Perhaps the message in these books, some straightforward and other
> subliminal, can become internalized in how we treat each other,, choose
> what we choose, and all the rest from Dec 26 on.
>
> While I don't recall in which of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books it is
> described, there is a sobering picture of Christmas in one of them.
> The treat of eating an orange, simple homemade gifts, no 4-figure costing
> gifts, et al.
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