Pace on Earth

Merry Xmas(War is Over)

It's a few minutes after 5 and, after starting at noon time today, I have completed this year's Christmas shopping. I would like to think that I did pretty well but I'm not even sure what I mean by that. The most important thing I will give anyone this year are heartfelt hugs.
Erin and I had a chat yesterday about our favourite Christmas songs and we determined that we had to break them up into categories like Classics(i.e. O Holy Night), Fun (i.e. Jingle Bells), Inspsirational and whatever else you want. We were discussing our inspirational favourites and she stated that this posts title song was her favourite because of it's message. Here it is:
I nodded in agreement but had to admit to her that nothing will ever surpass Band Aid's Do They Know it's Christmas Time simply because it has been the one song that strikes a chord with me every year. It came out in 1984 and I spent that Christmas in Toronto with the Dawkins clan. I was excited to get out in the big city to spend my Christmas money on God knows what.
The hook of this song got me as it played in every store and the glory of Muchmusic showed me the pictures in the video and the message was clear - "And in our world of plenty, we can spread a smile of joy; Throw your arms around the world, at Christmas time". Can't argue with that...

My two translations of Boy George's line:
1)Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
2)Hug Everyone!

Merry Christmas!

Si

Pace out.

posted by Vitamin S @ 5:44 p.m.