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I drove my son to a friend’s house on Saturday during the daytime. I could see the green strings of lights coiled from stick to stick along the deepset driveway, but they weren’t illuminated.
Then, that night, I picked him up and saw them. I loved what the family had done. The parents are both university-level art instructors. Their home was more or less hand-built and they always have cool stuff adorning the yard. They buy balled trees for the holidays and line the paths with them, replacing the ones that die or adding to the groves.
I do love me beautiful displays.
But, I also love me our Chanuka chanukiot. And here’s what they looked like on the last day of Chanuka – this past Friday. Despite the two essays published in yesterday’s New York Times (I have never met a Jew who is anything like the Jews in these essays), plenty of Jews love their winter holiday and keep it lovely, without coveting anyone else’s. Don’t worry – I’ve already written them about it and have offered to write for them a real winter holiday essay.
Happy, joyous, merry holiday.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:33 pm December 25th, 2006 in Politics
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And happy holidays to you and your family!
Thanks, Mike. And to you too. Thanks for reading and greeting.
Natural lighting is always prettier than the artificial sort IMHO. That is a lovely display, Jill.
Is that tall one in the back made of deer horns? Yea or nay, it’s a cleverly-executed design all the same.
That’s beautiful Jill. Thanks for sharing.
Eek – deer horns, Len? I can tell you, as much as my city’s councilpersons might want to suggest that Pepper Pike residents who put cages in their backyards to catch deer can keep the horns and use them thusly, umm, no. That chanukiah is not made of deer horns.
It’s actually a fairly common, modern chanukiah. We received it from my in-laws the year we got married, which will be precisely 15 years ago in a couple of days.
If you go to a website like this one, you can find just about any kind of kitschy thing your heard desires, though. The idea that Jews haven’t adequately commercialized the holiday is terribly overstated. They’ve/we’ve done just fine.
Thanks for the greetings and I hope you had a good holiday.
Thanks, Laura. I think I put up a lot more pictures last year but this year, we didn’t take one every night. I should, however, take a picture of the five enormous garbage bags I filled with stuff to give away, and the room still plenty full of what’s left. Talk about embarrassing.
The one reminds me of a tree, when I first saw the picture I thought it was the tree of life, though technically I suppose we should call it a tree of lights.
That would be what the artist was shooting for, at least according to the description here.
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