Santa Claus ain't coming ...

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 interesting stuff. yesterday i also read something on it, saying santa claus
 (- here we say: "weihnachstsmann") is actually wotan and the worship of him a  
 local nordic resistance against christianization. well, this might be the case, 
 and personally i also do integrate so called "pagan" elements into my spiritual 
 practice. however, the whole santa claus business is, these days, just a 
 commercial thing. at least that's what it is here. silly people wearing santa 
 claus heads since the middle of november, singing, in the subway, christmas 
 songs in an ironic way which is just to cover their shamefullness and spiritual 
 poverty. the waste land, actually. & when you, like me, have children you 
 really have to make up your mind how to deal with this. kirsten & myself  
 decided, not to kick out "pagan" elements in general, but to kick out santa 
 claus for the above named reasons. a few days ago yella, who will be 4 years 
 old in february, was asked by an old lady on the street: "na, mein kleines, war 
 denn der weihnachtsmann schon bei dir?" (- about: "hey, little one, has santa 
 claus already been to your house?"). and that's what yella answered: "nein, an 
 weihnachten feiern wir doch die geburt vom jesus-kind. das hat mit dem  
 weihnachtsmann nichts zu tun!" (- about: "no, at christmas we celebrate, as you 
 know, the birth of the jesus-child. this has nothing to do with santa claus").
 the old lady was, well, astonished, myself i was - guess what? - pretty proud. 

kai (- with snow in front of the windows, and a 40 bucks goose in the oven)