At least where I’m from, the coldest time of year is late January to late March and that’s what I regard as Winter. I love it. It’s cold, fresh and clear. My home is cozy. Christmas is over. I’m remote working. Everyone else is miserable. Bliss.
The “Christmas Season” is Fall, not Winter*. The only reason the holiday isn’t literally over when the Winter season starts is that the Christians got their calendar screwed up and hold the holiday on a fixed date instead of on the solstice where it belongs.
(*Or “Spring, not Summer” for upside-down people, I suppose.)
I don’t enjoy the cold weather, icy roads, or shoveling my drive way ever week or so. But it is pretty to look out from my window. I much prefer fall right before it starts to get Uber cold. The air is crisp, the morning is just slightly cold, and the trees are turning all manner of color. That’s the best time in my opinion.
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For people living in colder regions I can certainly understand that winter is not their favourite season. We only have a little snow in winter - if at all - so the nuisance is minimal.
Number one rule of working with clients during the holiday season is that you don’t wish them Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, or anything else unless they say it first.
thankfully the holidays end right after winter starts and then you have like 3 months of post-holiday winter to enjoy. pretty much all of january, then february, then most of march.
Christmas is mostly an ordeal to get over with IMO. I’m an adult atheist with social anxiety and no offspring to vicariously enjoy the festivities through, so it’s really not for me 🤷
i’ve come to celebrate the winter solstice not because of ‘christmas’ or anything but because it’s an observance of an objectively empirical astronomical phenomenon. Recognizing the solstices and equinoxes were pivotal, fundamental, essential discoveries that humanity needed in order to properly leverage agriculture, and everything about civilization stems (no pun intended) from there.
Same here. I have neither the religion of the germanic peoples who ‘invented’ Christmas nor the religion of the ones who incorporated it later (or any), but I can appreciate lights, warmth and people who are important to you getting together at a time of the year when it’s cold and grey and dark for 16 hours a day. That’s why and how the winter solstice was originally celebrated and I get that.
I grew up in NZ - we used to spray fake snow on the windows at Christmas and send cards with winter scenes, reindeer, robins, all that. On the day we’d have a big meal topped off with plum pudding. Bloody ridiculous.
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