Commentary
Apparently we’re now celebrating “Season.” At any rate a retailer just sent me “Season’s Greetings,” as vague about which or why as a newspaper’s antiseptic “Happy Holidays.” I think there’s some sort of clue, about the season at least, in proclamations of “Winter Lights Across Canada,” though according to my telephone this week is actually the darkest of the year. So what light exactly is shining?
My local school board seems to have done a hasty online search and come back uncertain. It intoned that “many in our … community will be celebrating holidays or marking important occasions together. In December this includes Hanukkah, the Winter Solstice, Yule, Yalda, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Zarathushti. In early January, many will observe new year celebrations, Orthodox Christmas, and the Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh Ji.”…