This Leon Hale column originally appeared in the Houston Chronicle on Dec. 22, 1988.
It was close this time. With just four days to go, I hadn't got the Christmas spirit yet. I was beginning to figure I wouldn't get it at all this year.
You can go to church, or to grandmother's, or to your favorite tavern, or you can take a basket of goodies into the ragged end of town and pass them out to poor little children, andLast year, for instance, was a Mississippi cinch. For me, at least. That's when a gang of us sold the farm and hocked the silverware and rented a house on the side of a mountain out at Santa Fe and spent Christmas there.This day in Houston history, Nov.
* I remember an aroma that I once associated with Christmas, from my early times. It was a combination of cedar, oranges, almonds, and chocolate. I have known Christmases when I resorted to that blend, hoping to attract the spirit. Cut a cedar bough. Slice an orange. Crack an almond. Break a chocolate bar. Result was the smell of Christmas. I used to think it would sell, that I could package it and people would buy it, the way they buy packets of pretty-smelling things in gift shops now.
Some neighbors didn't understand what he needed and offered him money for his wreaths. That's not what he wanted. Reason they did, I had dealt earlier the same day with a series of overworked and weary sales clerks. Here's what happened with the last one:
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