White Christmas

I don't know why it is that there's such a desire for many of us for a white Christmas. Is it the sentimentality of it? It is nostalgic? It certainly is partly crazy!

We got our first real snow fall last night. It meant traffic jams and slippery roads, and gingerly walking from the parking lot to the building I teach in.

White Christmas? The movie White Christmas is classic...the song, I believe, is the most recorded song in all history. Bing Crosby's rich voice and Rosemary Clooney's accompaning...it doesn't get any better than that. Remember?


I don't think it's just White Christmas that has immortalized it. Who can forget George Bailey running through the snow on the way back to his house, or the snow blowing on the bridge, or the scene in which he plows his car into the tree?
There's so many movies that have played off of that theme. It's engrained within us.
Of course a white Christmas is limited to the northern latitudes; but did you know that weather forecasters get inundated this time of the year with inquiries into whether or not there will be a white Christmas?
As a Wisconsinite, there's huge disappointment when the grass is still visible at Christmas time. Still, this morning out in the driveway, I was not singing the song as I shoveled off the first snow...I was thinking about buying salt! There's go the romance.
We had our first snow last night...there's more to come they say. It's almost certain that it will be a White Christmas.

Christmas is about Christ, and memories...and this snow is about tradition and "it's time" for Christmas once again.