What Chirstmas Means (continued)
There are more little things that are meaningful to me about Chirstmas and that is:
Music and Dancing::
I am uncertain if it is our culture but our family loves music and we love Spanish Christmas songs and merry tunes. We listen to music most of the time we are together on Chirstmas Eve and Day. We play things that are holiday tunes and we play lovely Spanish music we dance to. We love merengue and everyone knows how to dance it so we usually all dance that particular song. We are lovers of music and in fact we have a dancer and choreographer in our family who has dedicated her life to dancing and is in her early twenties and already an accomplished dancer and teacher of dance. She Actually performed a dance at one of family gatherings. For us music and dance is a part of the holidays and we just automatically include it in our holiday joy. Frankly we feel like a party is not a party if there is not any music and dancing.
The New Year:
The holidays mean a new year and a new time. We know that shorty after December 25 is January 1 of the brand new year. This is a different celebration but as long as we are talking about the holidays we might as well talk about New Year's Eve. For me it has become more and more quiet and more meloncholy. It has become more a celebration of having lived one more year and shared a life with a wonderful family. We get together and we talk about the past year and some of the things that have happened. Family members talk about remembering this or that situation or happening in the family. Some are funny. Some memories are about the ones who have gone before us. It is a time to remember all of the wonderful things that we did and all the things we would like to see happen in the upcoming year. The next step is after all the New Year that brings hope and brings newness to our lives.
Music and Dancing::
I am uncertain if it is our culture but our family loves music and we love Spanish Christmas songs and merry tunes. We listen to music most of the time we are together on Chirstmas Eve and Day. We play things that are holiday tunes and we play lovely Spanish music we dance to. We love merengue and everyone knows how to dance it so we usually all dance that particular song. We are lovers of music and in fact we have a dancer and choreographer in our family who has dedicated her life to dancing and is in her early twenties and already an accomplished dancer and teacher of dance. She Actually performed a dance at one of family gatherings. For us music and dance is a part of the holidays and we just automatically include it in our holiday joy. Frankly we feel like a party is not a party if there is not any music and dancing.
The New Year:
The holidays mean a new year and a new time. We know that shorty after December 25 is January 1 of the brand new year. This is a different celebration but as long as we are talking about the holidays we might as well talk about New Year's Eve. For me it has become more and more quiet and more meloncholy. It has become more a celebration of having lived one more year and shared a life with a wonderful family. We get together and we talk about the past year and some of the things that have happened. Family members talk about remembering this or that situation or happening in the family. Some are funny. Some memories are about the ones who have gone before us. It is a time to remember all of the wonderful things that we did and all the things we would like to see happen in the upcoming year. The next step is after all the New Year that brings hope and brings newness to our lives.
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