Merry Christmas: Santa strikes again

 

Ten years ago I did a post about Norad tracking Santa. 

He was on Washington DC some minutes ago. 

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and that this year we all can find some common sense.

Someone from Virginia was visiting this blog while I was editing this post. Merry Christmas my friend!

It's Xmas again: Suicide during the season and MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

It's that time of the year where family relationships are at the center of our emotional response to the festivities who are more about Noel than Christ's birth.

I was once told by a psychiatrist that this is the season when the rate of people seeking for help increases. 

Our Suicide Helpline in Brazil claims that it is true that they receive more calls during Christmas. Not necessarily on December, 25 or 24 but during the season or January. 

Preparations for Christmas has started to be done earlier and earlier and the phenomenon "Christmas Creep"* is an evidence of this fact.

Strangely enough in English there are numerous articles claiming that it is not true. Christmas death rate increase is nothing but a myth.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and also some compassion to those who don't have a supportive family.

Take care. Make cookies for Santa. You'll be the one who will eat them anyway,

*Christmas creep is a merchandising phenomenon in which merchants and retailers introduce Christmas-themed merchandise or decorations before the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, which in the United States is on the day after Thanksgiving.[1] The term was first used in the mid-1980s.

Search for help in case you are suicidal. Helpline in US.

Merry Christmas 2017

Xmas  again!
I don't want trees, I don't want Santa,I don't want socks on the fireplace... no.
I was watching it and felt like sharing it as  
Merry Christmas!!!!

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Pope's Christmas celebration: kissing baby Jesus's and Vatican's ties with Rothchilds

Usually, I do not celebrate Christmas because since my grandma passed away this date disappeared from our family.

This year the Pope's speech lamented children in war and poverty but when it came the part of kissing baby Jesus he complimented pedophiles in such a way that the social networkings are full of infuriated comments about this "kissing".

It is hard to forget that the Vatican headquarter of the catholic church:

"“The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others. 

“The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc.” (...) "

I'm sorry but I can't join a festivity that is connected with crimes.

Happy New Year!

  

Merry Christmas - 2015

Again! I wish you all a Merry Xmas whether you have a family or will be with friends.
For those who will be by themselves I hope you do not feel lonely and have a peaceful holiday.

Christmas: huge scale of emotions

Christmas again which means a period that affects our emotions in a sad or happy way.
It is not easy to balance all these emotions. We'll survive.

I would love to be in Paris!

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Merry Christmas 2012

The Grinch is ruining Xmas

Canada
Tuesday November 20, 2012

In Kingston, it’s not the Grinch but a 24-year-old man who police say stole Christmas.

As Christmas-themed floats slowly rolled down Princess St. during Kingston’s annual Santa Claus parade, an intoxicated man shouted blasphemous lies to shocked children: Santa doesn’t exist.

The man, whose gelled hair “looked like a set of devil horns protruding from his head,” was reported to Kingston police, Const. Steve Koopman said.

Police arrested a 24-year-old man around 6 p.m.

“It was pretty despicable that someone, during this time of the year, would tell kids Santa isn’t real — which of course we would argue,” Koopman said. (keep reading)
Via The Star.

Hitler was furious when informed that Santa
 doesn't exist.                                                                         (By hitlerantsparody)

 Confusing...

"The Baby Songbook" by Tom Seidmann Freud

Thought about Sigmund Freud, yes, it is his niece. The name is Martha but changed to Tom due to some of her views and beliefs.

The illustrations above are from the child's book "The Baby Songbook" that has many beautiful images.

At her site there are information about her and copies of her great illustrations:

"As an adult, she was noted for her eccentricities as well as her artistic talent, in particular, her decisions to adopt a man's first name and to wear men's clothing. A long history of emotional instability preceded a major breakdown after the failure of her husband's publishing venture and his suicide in 1929; she took her own life the following year. Seidmann-Freud has been characterized as a member of the Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) movement. Her artwork often featured people and objects simply but precisely rendered in ink, their outlines carefully filled in with watercolors using the pochoir (stencil and layering) technique.

It is sad that she took her life but the silence, the taboo that surrounds the topic suicide must be broken because it is part of human condition and every ten minutes someone commits suicide.

But today is Christmas... exactly. Christmas is not a happy occasion for many and suicide is high during this period of the year.

I'll be doing some posts about suicide in 2012. Don't worry. Death is part of life and before dying people do a lot of amazing things just like Martha, or, Tom Freud did.

Another woman that dressed like man is George Sand, the French novelist, born Aurore that changed to George when she became a writer. She had a relatioship with the composer Chopin and was friend of Frederic Liszt, Delacroix and other artists.

Merry Christmas, and if you are not happy I can assure you that the club has many members.

NORAD tracking Santa Claus: call them toll-free

Till the moment the mainstream media claims that this year NORAD is receiving numerous phone calls, e-mails and the tracking is a success in Facebook and Twitter.

I just took a look at Google Earth and did these pictures and learned that it all started in 1955 and they are keeping the tradition.

This is something very strange for me but if you want you can call toll-free to know where is Santa or when will he be at your town.

Remember that if you didn't behave... no gifts for you!

As explained at this post NORAD stands for "North American Aerospace Defense Command. Military" and having both Santa Claus and NORAD at the same phrase is weird but that's the way it is.

You can also call NORAD for the latest news of Santa’s flight. The NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center will be open from 6 a.m. today to 5 a.m. on Christmas. Call 1-877-HI-NORAD (1-877-446-6723) toll-free

Merry Christmas!

NORAD Tracks Santa relies on corporate sponsorship, and is financed by neither American nor Canadian taxpayers

Unforgettable gift and Happy Xmas

I'm going very slowly and not doing controversial posts because I'm quieting my mind and trying to produce this effect on the four readers of this blog, thank you mom, dad, my friend Neil and nephew.

What was the present you received that you liked the most or you'll never forget?
Xmas is arriving and let's face it: we say a little prayer and and only think about the presents.
Your unforgettable present is not necessarily one that you received in Xmas.

I’ll never forgetr when someone gave me a Fort Apache by accident. I was a girl but I don't know why I was given this boy toy very famous in the 70ies. You can see here a boy who remembers when he was given it for Xmas.

I loved it. I remember sitting on the floor opening the box and start assembling the fort, putting the soldiers, horses, indigenous and some other pieces at their places. I just don’t have the recollection of fights among the soldiers and indigenous which is the aim of the game.

Merry Christmas!

One of the reasons holidays are not the best of times

As I said at this post holidays is not only about happiness for many and it can really triggers some deep feelings. For some it can be hell.

Merry Christmas! Fraga and Bob Dylan

This is a caricature by Fraga, a great Brazilian caricaturist. I have already published Marcelo Rampazzo here and the same happened again. I found this work at Fraga's blog and I left a comment telling him I have published it without permission. This is a caricature he did for a newspaper for an article about Bob Dylan's Christmas Album that was launched and the money will be donated to charity.

This is a good way to wish you all Merry Christmas!