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Saturday, December 25, 2010

CIVILIZING THE HEATHEN. He's ten months old today, old enough to start taking an interest in the Yuletide season. He loved all the gift wrapping, the scent of candies and foods, and twinkling lights of the Christmas tree. But there's so much more to appreciate than the commercial and purely festive parts of this annual celebration.

So we played the music for him. Unfortunately, all the other exciting activities had put him to sleep. Could anything awaken him to the real meaning of Christmas?

The full catalogue of what we tried actually adds up to a marvelous, global Youtube Christmas concert that even human beings might find affecting: Celtic (***), Welsh, German, Norwegian, Russian (***), Romanian, Greek, French, Italian (****), Italian-American (***),  African-American (****), and Celtic (****) again.

Nothing. He remained exactly as you see him above. Then we tried this (*), and lo and behold, up he got:


I guess he's still too young to understand the true ecumenical spirit of Christmas. But after our musical tour of Christendom, we kind of settled on this as our favorite (*****):


Merry Christmas. God bless us, every one.

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