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[batyatoon]

Tonight is the eighth and last night of Chanukah.

I've been wanting for a while to write up a few thoughts about this time of year: about Christmas decorations, and Your Holiday Here generic goodwill, and multiculturalism, and Hellenism, and a bunch of other stuff.

I'd like to sum it up in a single pithy phrase, but alas that is not to be. So look for a longer post on the subject sometime soon.

Probably when a few days have gone by and they still haven't taken down the tinsel menorahs.

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[sodyera.livejournal.com]

Just enjoy the Generic Winter Holiday Season in your own way, and let the wave of the media wash over you. If you get too much on you, just wash it off or hand it to your Gentile friends, they'll appreciate the ecumenical cheer.

Personally, I look at the decorations as an embellishment of Yule, the celebration of Winter Solstice usurped by Christianity to increase church attendance. Then I look at Lucy Van Pelt's point of view and celebrate the Gift Getting Season!

And Kwanzaa... no.