O Christmas Tree!! Dein Kleid will mich was lehren:
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum! Du kannst mir sehr gefallen! OK, we do something kind of crazy in December...some people as soon as the day after Thanksgiving...so I am just sure most of you already have done this crazy thing: We put a tree in our living rooms. Yes...We put a tree -- very very often -- an evergreen tree that was alive days ago, still green, still still smelling (wonderfully) of pine forests -- into our house. I know that since we all do it, it seems so normal and traditional and all that we really don't question it. We just do it! It doesn't seem odd, it doesn't seem to even warrant the question, "WHY am I doing this??" Then we decorate it with pretty, Christmas themed things: ornaments, garland, maybe popcorn and cranberries on a string, lights...a star or an angel on top. We leave it there and we let it shed its needles all over our living room floor. Why DO we do this? Is "because it is a Christmas tree" a good enough answer? Do...