Every year has its defining moments, but what happens when there are too many? When the deluge becomes too much to process, leaving us mentally drowning as we try to look back on the past twelve months?
All of this is not to say that corporations won’t make money on Black Friday and that people are done Christmas shopping. Quite the opposite. Companies have slickly entered the market place of ideas in the tech era, making often even larger profits than when we all got in cars and went to malls. But what we will lack are the fun images.. the frivolity of fights and battle scars cash register wars. Those days are gone.
We have chosen the hard coal Christmas songs to light up your holiday season. Partially based on what you listen to — and us, as well.
War.. pestilence. Pollution. Vanity. Selfishness.. cruelty. Bullying.. Are we guilty? Do we deserve the sharp fangs and the whipping of bird branches from his sack, maybe even being drug into the underworld?
Yes.. here we go again. Another nostalgic Coal Speaker post about the ‘malls’.. The nonstop posts. The memories. The melodrama that is the shiny halls of yesteryear.
We have been informed by sources that overall belief in Santa is hitting an all-time low. Officials report that children, most under 10 years of age, are still able to believe but doubt Santa at a much earlier age as time goes on. By 11 or 12, they are completely done with leaving cookies and milk and instead think their parents or guardians leave gifts under the tree..
Hopefully we can out some facts out there about this waning tradition.
Kids of today will never experience the excitement of a fully stocked toy store at Christmas…
Christmas is 295 days away.. but the spirit of Krampusnacht is hitting a little early this year.
The Jupiter and Saturn alignment could not have come at a more appropriate time according to the gazers of the stars.. astrologers have looked to this conjunction as a massive moment in human history.
Biblical scholars have equally paused at the magnificence of this time in their worldview. And while the wonders of the heavens made us wonder, a volcano came to life on earth.
So let’s light the Yule log, and travel back in history. After all, Christmas is a time of the paranormal, the ghostly, and the macabre.
As this post is written, there are only 5 days left until Christmas. That is four shopping days. four/five food prep days.. Six stressful days of work, COVID-19 fears, and also wrapping. Santa can’t do it all, after all..
So we travel back in time and see headlines of the past… headlines of tumult and hope.
And you can decide.. Are you the kind of person who signs, who sees miracles. Or do you believe that people just get lucky…