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Why does everybody have to say Happy Holidays?
Why can’t we say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Eid, have a great Kwanzaa, Happy Winter Solstice? Why can’t we ALL celebrate ALL of them? Like being guests at neighbors’ houses.
I mean, look at all the food we’re missing out on if we just stay exclusive to one. Like jelly-filled donuts and potato pancakes (Hanukkah), rosewater-scented, date-filled pastries and pine-nut cookies (Eid, the Muslim festivities), peanut soup and sweet potato pie (Kwanzaa), yule logs and plum pudding (Christmas), mutton soup and yule porridge (uh, traditional solstice celebration foods) …
See how ex-clusivity robs us? I think it’s time the leaders of these great religions/cultural ceremonies found a way to get us together rather than split us up.
Right now it’s like, you eat your way, I’ll eat mine.
With these shivering temperatures and mid-winter (not the start of winter, like the TV weather people tell us) just a day away, for my money, it’s time to huddle round the fire and share all the food.
Together.
Why does everybody have to say Happy Holidays?
Why can’t we say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Eid, have a great Kwanzaa, Happy Winter Solstice? Why can’t we ALL celebrate ALL of them? Like being guests at neighbors’ houses.
I mean, look at all the food we’re missing out on if we just stay exclusive to one. Like jelly-filled donuts and potato pancakes (Hanukkah), rosewater-scented, date-filled pastries and pine-nut cookies (Eid, the Muslim festivities), peanut soup and sweet potato pie (Kwanzaa), yule logs and plum pudding (Christmas), mutton soup and yule porridge (uh, traditional solstice celebration foods) …
See how ex-clusivity robs us? I think it’s time the leaders of these great religions/cultural ceremonies found a way to get us together rather than split us up.
Right now it’s like, you eat your way, I’ll eat mine.
With these shivering temperatures and mid-winter (not the start of winter, like the TV weather people tell us) just a day away, for my money, it’s time to huddle round the fire and share all the food.
Together.