Holiday Hunger

Merry Belated Christmas!

Apparently today was the most materialistic consumer driven

day of the year. The merchants are elated! Shopping madness

abounds. Returns are their way of getting consumers back in

the stores, so they can have another go at them.

Now don’t get me wrong, I buy too. Not a lot, but more

thoughty, researched gifts. That’s a bald-faced lie…What I do

is shop year ‘round and stockpile, so that by December I can

breathe easy and think about food…Christmas dinner Yum!

(I’ll be back to that before essays end. Um hum!)

You see, I am not a shopper, per se. I am a buyer. If I see

something in July that I know would give a friend or relative

great pleasure, I pull out the plastic and buy it on the spot; that

way, it’s paid off by Christmas. Don’t get me started on how

much the credit card companies love this time of year-Xmas

I mean…Aren't they hungry to profit on all that interest?

I will say that I am not immune to browsing at the last minute

and making emotional purchases… (Like the Wubble I got for my

grandson, while purchasing Christmas lights…or the Kinetic sand.)

Mostly, however, I’ll remember a conversation I had with

somebody and suddenly, in August, I’ll see exactly the item

he praised, in a shop window in Hood River (Buddha statue) or

a similar cobalt blue sweater, she gushed over, in a magazine…or

an ad comes on the television for uber car mats and bam! I am

on Amazon checking them out. What I avoid like the plague is

big box stores and shopping malls during this season, where

sales cause humans to turn into sharks and a feeding frenzy.

Major turn off for me… I encourage you to support our

consumer driven economy all twelve months. Healthier economy.

Witnessing those who have less bothers me this time of year.

Reminders are everywhere! How about you?

Hunger and healthy brings me to another kind of basic, physical sort; what

If we only ate one big meal per year? Would that nourish us

for the whole year? Not really, so, let’s talk about the hungry

and homeless; could we do more for them all twelve months

of the year, too? Just saying…Spread the blessings. Have

a Happy, prosperous 2015!

Raintreepoet :-)