![]() ![]() Without being overly sentimental, Winterson’s stories ride a line that embodies the optimism of the season contrasted with the deeper, pagan roots of the winter solstice. Regardless, Christmas Days-a collection of 12 shorts with accompanying recipes-embodies compelling aspects of the holiday. I’m closer to the unreformed Charlie Brown who didn’t fall for Linus’s speech. I don’t take to Winterson’s optimism as tightly as I would like. In pagan and Roman times it was a celebration of the power of light and the co-operation of nature in human life.Īgain, I’m a sucker for the season, but I hold to my own conflicted outlook. It is a joining together, a putting aside of differences. Christmas is celebrated across the world by people of all religions and none. I know Christmas has become a cynical retail hijack bit it is up to us all, individually and collectively, to object to that. As she writes in the first entry of Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days, she still holds onto the nobler aspects of the occasion despite the sinister motivations of corporate overlords: Jeanette Winterson is equally susceptible to the tug of yuletide. Despite all of this, there still are the usual Christmas trappings of family, food, and that nonsense about peace on Earth and good will towards all. Or, perhaps, the elongated break I get between fall and spring semesters as an educator. It largely has to do with the winter weather. ![]() Like many people, I am a huge sucker for this time of year. ![]()
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