Photo | Orange

Amethyst | 12/04/2007 9:26 pm | 1000

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Growing up, I didn't appreciate oranges taking up precious room in my Christmas stocking. After all, oranges were abundant. You could get them in any grocery store. While we lived in California, I could pick them off the trees. Mom explained the reason behind the oranges every Christmas. I figured this was a tradition that lost its meaning as our world got smaller. Oranges in stockings had represented something unusual and exotic and very, very special. Now that I'm older and have a sense of nostalgia, I've grown to appreciate this tradition. This is the time of year where oranges are imbued with a younger time's simplicity and a deeper appreciation of effort.

Amethystdawn (at gmail dot com) is a sentimental old fool.