Christmas treasures don’t have to be expensive to be
special.
Today’s Something Special About December is about something I picked
up as a University of Missouri student to have in my dorm room, and it’s been on
my desk at work each Christmas season ever since.
I remember finding this simple nativity scene in a downtown
Columbia store, and think it was about a dollar. It was something nice to have
on my desk as a reminder of the season.
It doesn’t stand more than a couple inches tall, and doesn’t
have angels, cows, sheep and many of the other things we expect. It’s pretty
subtle, and appropriate for a newsroom.
After graduating, I’d keep it on my desk in the newsroom
along with a plastic tree that stands maybe a foot and a half tall that I’ve
had since childhood.
The tree started appearing a little rough, losing branches
and getting a replacement strand of lights every couple of years. As if that
mattered, because I am loyal, even to plastic trees.
But together they moved with me from Connecticut to Flint and
Grand Rapids. As for Lansing, the tree stays home now that we have the
much-larger tree from Nana and its Michigan ornaments – and now a Michigan tree
skirt that Julie made for me.
But the nativity sits on my desk next to the computer
monitor, a gentle reminder to focus on what’s import both for the holidays and
life in general.
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