Tradition – I think of the holidays and the old Swedish traditions of my grandfather. Even though he died when I was only 5 or 6 I still remember the traditions that he passed on. We would have pickled herring, glugg etc.
Is it a tradition to have this word every other day now? Gosh I hope not because tradition dun bit my ass over the holidays. A death will do that. Think I’ll write about a different kind of tradition today. It’s traditional to put RSVP to invitations that say so and nobody does it anymore. This is annoying and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it. Head count, people. Head count!
This is the way it has always been. The way it always will be.
These are the words used to brick people in; to chain them to things they don’t like. To justify the unjustifiable when logic cannot be used. These are the words used to ignore sense and rationality for the sake of emotion, primal and unreasoning.
WE all have our family traditions like on Christmas we open our gifts on Christmas eve. We also make Birthday cake for baby Jesus. But some people may open gifts on Christmas, and have a big family feast.
I watch, in breath taking awe as the opening act of
“Fiddler on the Roof” starts
it’s cold out, NYC in December
but in the theater it’s warm and
my favorite play begins telling how
the old country lived
with
Tradition
Things in my family often happened as a result of tradition. Don’t think about why, don’t ask questions – it’s just how we do things. It wasn’t until I left home that I realised how unsatisfactory that approach to life is. I have nothing against traditions if they still have meaning, but not just for the sake of it.
Sticky like bubblegum stuck at the bottom of your shoe. Stepped in it, can’t get rid of it. Bright pink turning gray, turning dirt. It was fun while it lasted, now discarded, but can’t ever eliminate.
Sticky like bubblegum on which you stepped, never leaves you, drag, gross, bright pink turning gray turning dirt, you are stuck because it is stuck at the bottom of your shoe. What will finally rid you of it?
One more minute, how many steps? Never enough, never far away. And yet, it is finite. Beginning and end, why the weight of eternity on the manmade object? Shackles.
in my family giving a gift on christmas eve is a tradition. I want to carry that on with my children too. I can remember one year I thought I got a snowman from santa, its a precious memory. His name was Chilly. The gold writing wrote “Love from Santa”, it was proof he was real.
Polish culture, sports, adds stability, adds structure and point of reference. Family, ties, positive, Christmas and other holidays. Brings people together. Is a good starting/default point of view in my experience. Good rituatal for future.
She couldn’t break away from the tradition. she just couldn’t. To think of the hurricane it would create in the family was enough to give her a headache.
home, childhoood. living with your culture. habits that add value to your life. work is keeping me from learning and practicing my traditions. its very sad when i think about it but i plan to address it once im done school. til then i feel like my hands are ties and i dont have much option
traditions are fun we like to watch movies together as a family tradition have been around for many many years some traditions are decorating the tree making cookies with mom and dad spending quality time together while snuggling and spending time together on the couch.
They both sat back and sighed. It had been a wonderful day but this was quickly becoming the best part. The heat seeped through her cup and her hands felt like they were thawing despite the nip in the air. His mind settled a bit as he watched her relax and smile. The car smelled like a familiar mix of their two scents and the car heater was finally warming up. They both felt the peace of the season more acutely than they had all day in the unwrapping and joking, noise and laughter. It was the perfect reset and quickly became their favorite Christmas tradition; a simple 10 minutes set aside for themselves. Enjoying a coffee and each other’s company. A deep breath and a reset before jumping back into the fun and love of their families.
It’s no falsehood to say that tradition can be lost to the new generations. What is lost is a sense of attachment who we are as a humans in the past that did not work. We are now having learned from the past. Embracing truth and success, even the failure is recognized. Growing from what in the past did not work and making traditions the things that did. It’s ok to let things go, They are replaced by the things that do. But some things are never forgotten because its nature is so true and fulfilling that it makes us whole as humans. It’s in our very DNA. Contempt of this is only denying God and the natural truths as clear as gravity.
The room smelled like Christmas, fire, tea, pine trees. She looked around for anyone she recognized, but all the faces were unfamiliar. She sighed and took another sip of her drink. It was sickly sweet, some concocted punch from hell.
a tradition is to live with ambition
reside next to a warm voice
and your’s will microwave and boil
let alone, that in itself, resolution is toil
part of the humanity that which we deem sanity
When searching for a compendium of answers,
resort to the best friend, Mr. Laptop,
the distant stranger, at the bar,
pouring you his last and only drink,
your genetic-relations,
abrasive,
they stand with you for answers,
if you press search for long enough!
It has been my tradition for the past gazillion years at this time of year to express all the things I plan to do in the coming year, then turn around and not do any of them. If I didn’t write it all down, it would bother me less. But there’s something unsettling about reading diaries from several years that start the same way and finish after about three or four weeks. Hopeful starts, full of ideas about how to change and losing weight and being done with this thing or that. I do none of them. I’ve wanted to weigh less for most of my life, but never have done it. Which tells me basically that I like being 20 pounds overweight for no reason. The one thing I did do was quit smoking, which worked out. The next thing is now to stop drinking any kind of alcohol and see what life is like from that angle of things. It will likely be better. I’ll likely be less depressed. But I know myself. I’ll start looking for another vice. That’s been my tradition, too.
Things and events and people and stuff that keeps things the same over and over and over again and the comfort of being around what is it what makes it special even though there is not growth in it at all. I love to hate tradition and yet I yearn for it.
Something that is passed down through generations. It can be things like going to dinner at a restaurant of your choice on your birthday, making a favorite dish, passing on a joke or treasured item year after year during the holidays.
Tradition…the moments and memories I want to carry on with my children and grandchildren. Often we think of tradition at holiday times but there should be so much more to it. Christmas pajamas, dinners and decorations.
When I see my friend Noka, he has to tackle me with a hug as he screams my name, or else it wouldn’t feel the same. This is a tradition that I cherish, and always keep in mind when I’m down.
Tradition – I think of the holidays and the old Swedish traditions of my grandfather. Even though he died when I was only 5 or 6 I still remember the traditions that he passed on. We would have pickled herring, glugg etc.
Is it a tradition to have this word every other day now? Gosh I hope not because tradition dun bit my ass over the holidays. A death will do that. Think I’ll write about a different kind of tradition today. It’s traditional to put RSVP to invitations that say so and nobody does it anymore. This is annoying and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it. Head count, people. Head count!
Holistic mindset dictates that every action taken to stem the flow of time follows some sort of tradition. A habit, if you will.
This is the way it has always been. The way it always will be.
These are the words used to brick people in; to chain them to things they don’t like. To justify the unjustifiable when logic cannot be used. These are the words used to ignore sense and rationality for the sake of emotion, primal and unreasoning.
These are the words that hem me in.
Sally has a tradition that her family does on Hanukkah. They spin dreidels and have a .
WE all have our family traditions like on Christmas we open our gifts on Christmas eve. We also make Birthday cake for baby Jesus. But some people may open gifts on Christmas, and have a big family feast.
I watch, in breath taking awe as the opening act of
“Fiddler on the Roof” starts
it’s cold out, NYC in December
but in the theater it’s warm and
my favorite play begins telling how
the old country lived
with
Tradition
Things in my family often happened as a result of tradition. Don’t think about why, don’t ask questions – it’s just how we do things. It wasn’t until I left home that I realised how unsatisfactory that approach to life is. I have nothing against traditions if they still have meaning, but not just for the sake of it.
Sticky like bubblegum stuck at the bottom of your shoe. Stepped in it, can’t get rid of it. Bright pink turning gray, turning dirt. It was fun while it lasted, now discarded, but can’t ever eliminate.
Sticky like bubblegum on which you stepped, never leaves you, drag, gross, bright pink turning gray turning dirt, you are stuck because it is stuck at the bottom of your shoe. What will finally rid you of it?
One more minute, how many steps? Never enough, never far away. And yet, it is finite. Beginning and end, why the weight of eternity on the manmade object? Shackles.
in my family giving a gift on christmas eve is a tradition. I want to carry that on with my children too. I can remember one year I thought I got a snowman from santa, its a precious memory. His name was Chilly. The gold writing wrote “Love from Santa”, it was proof he was real.
Polish culture, sports, adds stability, adds structure and point of reference. Family, ties, positive, Christmas and other holidays. Brings people together. Is a good starting/default point of view in my experience. Good rituatal for future.
She couldn’t break away from the tradition. she just couldn’t. To think of the hurricane it would create in the family was enough to give her a headache.
family and doing things that bring back memories of being a kid when things were simpler and time went by slower.
home, childhoood. living with your culture. habits that add value to your life. work is keeping me from learning and practicing my traditions. its very sad when i think about it but i plan to address it once im done school. til then i feel like my hands are ties and i dont have much option
traditions are fun we like to watch movies together as a family tradition have been around for many many years some traditions are decorating the tree making cookies with mom and dad spending quality time together while snuggling and spending time together on the couch.
Chritmas is the first thing that comes to my mind. This year I was for the first tme with my boyfriends family.
I love to spend my time with my family and friends with all of us gathered at the couch and watching movies all night and watching together
Brings to mind a play and a whole bunch of dancers and musical numbers.
It also brings to mind Christmas. The holidays.
Our limitations.
They both sat back and sighed. It had been a wonderful day but this was quickly becoming the best part. The heat seeped through her cup and her hands felt like they were thawing despite the nip in the air. His mind settled a bit as he watched her relax and smile. The car smelled like a familiar mix of their two scents and the car heater was finally warming up. They both felt the peace of the season more acutely than they had all day in the unwrapping and joking, noise and laughter. It was the perfect reset and quickly became their favorite Christmas tradition; a simple 10 minutes set aside for themselves. Enjoying a coffee and each other’s company. A deep breath and a reset before jumping back into the fun and love of their families.
It’s no falsehood to say that tradition can be lost to the new generations. What is lost is a sense of attachment who we are as a humans in the past that did not work. We are now having learned from the past. Embracing truth and success, even the failure is recognized. Growing from what in the past did not work and making traditions the things that did. It’s ok to let things go, They are replaced by the things that do. But some things are never forgotten because its nature is so true and fulfilling that it makes us whole as humans. It’s in our very DNA. Contempt of this is only denying God and the natural truths as clear as gravity.
Old vs New? Structure vs Implementation of re-design? Clothing. History. Purpose.
The room smelled like Christmas, fire, tea, pine trees. She looked around for anyone she recognized, but all the faces were unfamiliar. She sighed and took another sip of her drink. It was sickly sweet, some concocted punch from hell.
a tradition is to live with ambition
reside next to a warm voice
and your’s will microwave and boil
let alone, that in itself, resolution is toil
part of the humanity that which we deem sanity
When searching for a compendium of answers,
resort to the best friend, Mr. Laptop,
the distant stranger, at the bar,
pouring you his last and only drink,
your genetic-relations,
abrasive,
they stand with you for answers,
if you press search for long enough!
I love the tradition my family and I have! We open our presents on Christmas eve instead of Christmas!!
my family just started a tradition this year. basically we
steady, standard, always done, good, tough, not new, old, not for all, limiting, difficult,
It has been my tradition for the past gazillion years at this time of year to express all the things I plan to do in the coming year, then turn around and not do any of them. If I didn’t write it all down, it would bother me less. But there’s something unsettling about reading diaries from several years that start the same way and finish after about three or four weeks. Hopeful starts, full of ideas about how to change and losing weight and being done with this thing or that. I do none of them. I’ve wanted to weigh less for most of my life, but never have done it. Which tells me basically that I like being 20 pounds overweight for no reason. The one thing I did do was quit smoking, which worked out. The next thing is now to stop drinking any kind of alcohol and see what life is like from that angle of things. It will likely be better. I’ll likely be less depressed. But I know myself. I’ll start looking for another vice. That’s been my tradition, too.
reuse
recycle
repetitive lifestyles
families
and cycles
where is my voice
where do i begin
this cycle
i live in
Things and events and people and stuff that keeps things the same over and over and over again and the comfort of being around what is it what makes it special even though there is not growth in it at all. I love to hate tradition and yet I yearn for it.
Family get together’s.
Fun LOL.
Presents under the tree.
Happy as can be. H.A.C.B. [happy as can be.]
Like a tradition! families have different ones! try to come up with your own! traditions!
Family
Love
Holidays
Gathering
Togetherness
Friends
Parties
old things laid on old things laid on old things.
every brick that falls
births a smile
every tree that burns with electricity
brings satisfaction.
why?
does it make sense?
Something that is passed down through generations. It can be things like going to dinner at a restaurant of your choice on your birthday, making a favorite dish, passing on a joke or treasured item year after year during the holidays.
It creates memories of happiness and joy in my life. It a sense of family and love. Its togetherness and creates everlasting love.
Tradition…the moments and memories I want to carry on with my children and grandchildren. Often we think of tradition at holiday times but there should be so much more to it. Christmas pajamas, dinners and decorations.
I love the tradition that we a celebrate on Christmas.
Tradition – beleifs – continued patterns we do daily, weekly, monthly, yearly to celebrate life and each other Traditions bring us together
When I see my friend Noka, he has to tackle me with a hug as he screams my name, or else it wouldn’t feel the same. This is a tradition that I cherish, and always keep in mind when I’m down.