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| Cousins eating snowflakes after Thanksgiving lunch |
Where is
home for the holidays for you? The vast
majority of families in America live in towns or cities and are not directly touched
by having a farm homestead to visit for traditional family holidays. Why is it then that many of us, including television
and movie script writers, often envision a farm or country setting when picturing
a home for the holidays that is not their own experience?
Maybe it
goes back to the founding of our country when nearly every new settlement was
essentially "a big farm."
Maybe it goes back to the expansion west that was accomplishment mainly
by families risking everything to make a living on their own homesteads. Maybe it goes back to creation, the very beginning
when all was "right with the world."
Regardless of the reason why, a country setting can bring a sense of
peace and comfort during the holidays, and there always seems to be room for
"one more" so no one is left out.
Isn't that
what most of us want at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter—to be somewhere we
will be welcomed and be a part of the family?
Of course, I know that is not true of all holidays on every farm. In some cases, it is quite the opposite. Yet, I do not think families will ever give
up hope of being touched by that kind of holiday "back on the farm." As a result, many city people will do their
best to try to duplicate that feeling in their apartments, condominiums, or
houses amid rows of identical houses.
That is o.k., too, of course, because the best part is not where you
spend your time of thanksgiving but with whom.
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