I came home from work today to find that he’d made a Yule tree by twisting multicolored lights (the kind that glow and dim in various patterns you can control), silver and white garland, and a network cable (for stiffness) together, and hanging it so that, with the help of some almost invisible string, it hangs in an open conical spiral shape. Its also got small multicolored balls and real candycanes on it.
He explained that it was illogical to celebrate a holiday about the return of light and life by killing a tree.
I’ve always had real trees, and and enjoyed them greatly. I would never have agreed`to the usual sort of artificial one.
This is different though - it’s not a fake tree, it’s an abstract sculpture of a tree.
He calls it a zen tree.
It’s sorta cool.
“And those who look to the stars in the heavens
Turning their backs to the fields and the groves
Still live in the love of the Lord and the Lady
The wider the circle the more the love grows”
