Welcome to this Sunday’s Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. Today we target: Why
- How did mistletoe and the Christmas Kiss become a custom?
- Should we credit Norse goddess Frigg and son Baldur or delay applause to 18th Century England?
- Is serious smooching customary or is it just hugging and bussing under the white berried parasite? Such adventure, who decides?
- Does Yogi Yorgesson’s song “I Yust go Nuts at Christmas”, a Scandinavian Christmas treat , offer appeal and some application: “On Christmas I hug and kiss my vife’s mother, da rest of da year, vell, ve d-own speak to each udder?”
- Does that make you want to get online and hear the whole song?
- Easy to do, but the accent may require reading the lyrics so enjoy and find out, BTW, who is Gabriel Heatter?
- Is it news that today’s Kiss at Christmas speaks also to The Prophet’s sail and rudder of the soul, passion and reason?
- Can various kisses give momentum, direction and meaning in life?
- Have your spirits soared, as ours last night, kissed by symphonic sound and sight of a magnificent holiday concert?
- Driven by beauty, is it up and down the streets, in search of the kiss of light and decoration?
- Do the luminaries set out last night still kiss the darkness this early Sunday morning? Doesn’t darkness always need a kiss?
- Can you imagine being unkissed at Christmas?
- For me a certain February, 50 years ago. filled a many year void with meaning and remembrance that endure; is the accompanying message: “Never kiss it off–keep marching?”
- Does the KISS principle, with its many formulations and expression, provide welcome pathway through complexity at Christmas and throughout the years–especially as the next one nears?
- Kisses at Christmas; how wonderful, how necessary and that’s why?
Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living”. The answers and actions are yours?