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I am not big on Christmas but this year I feel the Christmas cheer is affecting me even less than normal. I haven't given one thought to Christmas gifts and it's already the 9th of December.
There are some people I will get gifts for, close family and friends, but the list is small. Most years I make something to give, and only buy a few small things.
I have made necklaces, cookies, drawings in the past. Not sure what will happen this year but I can't bring myself to worry somehow. I heard on the news here the other day that business is not going up at this time of year as usual, and the shops aren't that full despite it being Christmas time. This is going to be a generally quiet Christmas for most people, spent doing more of what Christmas is really about - spending time with family and loved ones.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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