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\nDear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n
\nDear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n
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\nMy sister is a married with two daughters in high school.\u00a0 Her husband is a non-practicing Jew and she is an atheist (former Catholic). They do not celebrate Christmas and in a recent email she mentioned to me that “the girls were going shopping for Solstice.”<\/p>\n
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\nI’m not a big fan of organized religion or any religion for that matter.\u00a0 I am, however, a big fan of Christmas, and by that I mean Santa and gingerbread houses not Mary and mangers.<\/p>\n
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\nHere are my questions:\u00a0 Would I be out of line to send the family a Christmas card and a couple of small gifts for the girls?\u00a0 Is it rude to simply ignore whatever hogwash they believe in?\u00a0 And finally, what the hell do you get someone for Solstice anyway?<\/p>\n
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\nSigned,
\nCurious Elf<\/p>\n
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Dear Curious Elf,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \nI’m glad you brought this important matter to everyone’s attention. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \nCan we all agree that holiday sentiments are meant to convey love and good wishes, no matter what holiday the other person celebrates? I know that not everyone uses the end of December for religious observations, but doesn’t everyone like a nice card or a gift in the dark days of winter? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \nOn that note, I don’t think it’s rude to send cards and gifts to your neices. If your sister wants to rip off the Christmas wrapping and replace it with a Yule goat then so be it. Unless you are very religious, this can all come down to semantics. If you decorate an Evergreen tree and exchange gifts I really don’t care what you want to call your special day. In fact, I call the tree in my apartment my no-religious-affiliation-winter-holiday-tree. And I do accept gifts and cash. Not just during the holiday’s either- let me be perfectly clear about that. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \nI did some research on what to give people for winter Solstice and here are a few great ideas:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n– Tumbled agate or quartz crystals<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n– Animal or crop talisman <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n– A bag of seeds<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n– Anything Yule-related (logs, trees, fires, etc)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Any of these gifts are sure to ring in the Winter Solstice with great joy. Unfortunately the children who receive these gifts will be horribly disappointed, so I think you should stick with your plan.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \nSincerely, Dear Poor Lucky Me, My sister is a married with two daughters in high school.\u00a0 Her husband is a non-practicing Jew and she is an atheist (former Catholic). They do not celebrate Christmas and in a recent email she mentioned to me that “the girls were going shopping for Solstice.” I’m not a … Continue reading “Religious Strife During the Holiday Season – Monday December 7th”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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