[gemy]

I thought I'd start a thread about what special activities or events are part of your Christmas season, that allows you to get in touch with the "spirit" of Christmas?

Almost every year, I do meditation classes several times a week in Dec, and the students donate what they can, I in turn give this money to The Food Bank here. In fact that is on my todo list for tomorrow. We never raise a whole lot of money, a couple hundred dollars or so, but I think every little bit helps.

Then every night starting on the 12th day of Christmas ie 12 days before the 25th I light a candle and sit and meditate starting at 5 minutes, and then on the 12th night one hour in front of 12 lit candles. Sometimes my family joins in for a bit, sometimes for the whole time.

The third thing I do is go through all the doggy stuff, and my personal clothing things, and give to the shelter the doggy things I don't need or use, and give to Goodwill items I don't use or need either.