Each year a Christmas tree goes to the village, for display in the square. I excuse myself giving it, on the grounds that, it clears space in the garden, the logs can be burned and it is a Yule Tree celebrating the winter solstice not a xmas tree, and anyway the village is important to me, even though the Christian celebration is not. Tradition does more to keep religion alive than faith, but it is also harder to escape.
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tinkercreek
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Dec 1, 2019
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Cutting down trees for a holiday is so wrong
Cutiebeauty
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Dec 1, 2019
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The tree has to go anyway because it is crowding it neighbours. They were planted thickly as a crop, and the final stand needs to be thinned.
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