By JOSH RESNEK
Did we buy them? Did we rent them?
“I don’t know,” said Councilor Fred Capone about the city’s wreaths, which apparently cost $800 each.
“Can we get the individual cost of the wreaths and the tree and the vendor?” Capone asked.
He said they were beautiful but he wanted to know the cost.
Councilor Mike McLaughlin said the cost didn’t matter.
Continue reading “Wreaths, tree beautiful, cost still a concern”With more than 300,000 Americans dead from the virus by Christmas brings to mind the song made so famous by the late Elvis Presley.
It goes like this:
“I’ll have a blue Christmas without you.
I’ll be so blue just thinking about you.
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree wont’ be the same dear, if you;’re not here with me.
And when those blue snowflakes start falling, that’s when those blue memories start calling.
You’ll be doin’ all right, with your Christmas of white. But I’ll have a blue, blue, blue Christmas.
You’ll be doin’ all right, with your Christmas of white. But I’ll have a blue, blue, blue Christmas.”
Great stuff that Elvis Presley magnum opus to the holiday.
By JOSH RESNEK
The new wreaths placed on poles throughout the city were the talk of the town last week.
After all, they are beautiful, green and golden and impeccable, more so in many
ways than what the Town of Wellesley installs on its
After all, they are beautiful, green and golden and impeccable, more so in many
ways than what the Town of Wellesley installs on its poles every Christmas.
The only difference – Wellesley can afford it – Everett should think more carefully about its spending in the face of the crisis the city is facing with the virus and Encore.
The juxtaposition of lines of people wearing face mask along the length of Chelsea Street underneath these stunning wreaths, brings to mind one of the cruel ironies of the Christmas season. Everything that glitters, like the wreaths, brings to mind one of the cruel ironies of the Christmas season.
Continue reading “In the face of fiscal crisis city decorates with $800 wreaths”
By JOSH RESNEK
Thanksgiving has come and gone.
Whether you believe the statistics or not, about 7,000 Americans died from the onset of Turkey Day and over the long holiday weekend.
It is predicted that many, many thousands more are going to die before Christmas, which is now a month away.
What is worse are the predictions by our health experts that Thanksgiving is going to be followed by a further, dangerous spike in virus cases as a result of the Thanksgiving get-togethers.
At a time when 180,000 new infections a day are being discovered among the population, the possibility of a further spike makes the future appear to be tenuous at best, terrible at worst.
What is in store for Christmas?
Dreariness and hesitation, uncertainty, and more sickness.
Continue reading “Pleas for masks, social distance in ‘Red zone’”
It is impossible to know how many Christmas holidays we get to celebrate in a lifetime.
Can we all agree that no Christmas should go uncelebrated?
No matter the condition of our family relationships, Christmas must go on.
Why?
Because we get so few of them before we are gone.
When we are gone, there is no Christmas. Enjoy it now while we are here.
No matter how crazy or upsetting our lives can be, or how satisfied and calm some of us can be, the holiday must be celebrated.
Even the obsessed, who care not about holidays, whose only care are their obsessions, must reserve a night and a day to pay attention to Christmas.
Life without Christmas is not life.
Christmas is too commercial, you complain.
So what. What’s wrong with exchanging presents even if you go into debt buying them!
Christmas is about sharing presents, sharing love, sharing hope and affection but only if you are capable of doing this.