That had been last year, one of the rare occasions we have had snow in Changsha.
There is also a weird Christmas … for some. Branko Milanovic posted on the 26th of December 2021
I hardly knew about the existence of Christmas when I was a child. Both the 25th of December and the 7th of January were ordinary working days, with my parents, and everyone’s else parents going to work. When I would read in the newspapers an article, for example, on how Parisian streets were especially nicely lit for that year’s Christmas, I felt vaguely that the French must have been celebrating some weird quasi-medieval festival that no modern-minded person would pay slightest attention to. For me, Christmas celebrations in Western Europe were a bit like those weird customs that I would read still existed amongst the British Lords, Queens and Kings that seemed so outlandish that I was wondering how an advanced country could have such unenlightened practices. It was perhaps like a feeling that votaries of Scientology elicit among most people in the United States today.
Be it as it is, have some relaxing days – off work, time for reflection on past, present and future, near and far.
COMMEDIA DELLA VITA OR PÁNTA RÊI'S FIRM GROUND 