11: White Wine In The Sun
As well as his conflicted feelings about Christmas as an atheist who still loves some aspects of the holiday, the title refers to the experience of these winter-themed festivities in Australia’s high summer. I know from my brother’s family Christmas photos that Santa’s grottos still have snow instead of sand.
So how do holidays like this, and other traditions, feel so far from their point of origin?
(And of course the Nativity was in modern Palestine, where snow isn’t all that common either.)
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