Holi-Blog: Blue and Green

I'm sorry this blog is so confusing. I'm kind of in a rush, holiday style.
I've always been real nostalgic during the holidays. Christmas, in particular, makes me feel warm and makes me bake (more than the usual) cookies and makes me love loving. I love the tiny glow of tiny lights and the fresh smell of artificial balsam and even the uneven cuts of wrap.
I especially love the color blue at Christmas. Partly because blue is really unexpected during the holiday season. Whether there are sparkles in the Christmas blue or not, it certainly does shine differently than during the rest of the year. Especially when that blue is smartly interrupted by cartooned Santa's and Frosty's or, dressed handsomely with the classic wreath, soft red velvet bows, and vintage-y, cheesy, Kinkade-y scenes with horses, cabins, perennially fresh trees, carols, soft glows and, ghosts. I love all that nonsense.

I also totally love my version of mediocrity, especially at Christmastime (okay, I'm of nihilist persuasion). I love the blue, especially because it secularizes everything in one fell swoop. Now that I'm thinking of it, I haven't time for exaggerated emotions or schmaltzy overtures and epilogues to my everyday. It's okay to be mediocre. So what if Christmas for me is all about the presents? Christmas cards? And, divvying up evenly on behalf of Santa? Then kicking back with some egg nog and roasting chestnuts?
Unexpected segue:
Having opportunities to know you (the many you(s) is really the important measurable gift I find under the all-year-round-tree
Did you know I have a pear tree in my yard? It's green and, I bought it, while green on Earth Day just two years ago. Green things [that grow, or so they claim], requiring watering regularly and the occasional fertilizer stake, are rarely successful for me!
But, there is satisfaction found in stuff that grows. There is a finesse, too, a know-how, a delicacy needed to observe the difference between that thing which grows because it can and the one that grows because it wants--green and otherwise.
Oh crap... now I've done it:
Here's the thing, the more blue you have around at Christmas, the better, and, I don't mean the little pink trees (though, they are fabulous!).
We all know Christmas is in an open relationship with the mediocre, and, this is good news for some of us.

So, remember to cruise through Christmas, right into New Year's where some important stuff can happen if you want it to. Deciding not to be mediocre (or, how we display our varying levels of mediocrity) has nothing to do how we deck the halls; it's really about who and how we are each and everyday. Being brave and looking forward to New Year's with an awakened commitment to self and loved ones, reinventing, rediscovery and reworking, moving to the core of a new sense of humanness, and, loving/being in a better, more effective way, is the right answer for the mediocre.

Happy New Year to you!
Love,
Sarah