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Work InformationHundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For A More Joyful Christmas by Bill McKibben
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was the right book for the right moment for me as we pass Thanksgiving and start into the Christmas season. A perfect segway into Advent. Bill McKibben is a wonderful author. I was not aware that he was so spiritually inclined, especially his Christian perspective. I appreciate his thoughtful approach to this holiday. It is a quick read and very captivating. ( ) A very quick read that provided a handful of amazing stats and facts about how Christmas has become the consumption machine that it is. Great way to change perspective on making the holidays more joyful and reverent. Will certainly be thinking from now through the rest of the year on how to implement some of these ideas and create the holiday I want - not the one we are told to have. -- It's a coincidence I finished reading HUNDRED DOLLAR HOLIDAY by Bill McKibben in December. In the small book McKibben writes about history of Christmas, value of spending time with loved ones not money, & handmade gifts. On December 25 McKibben feeds birds. Neighbors receive cookies & carols. There aren't many new ideas in HUNDRED DOLLAR HOLIDAY but the book clad in brown paper is interesting. -- no reviews | add a review
Too many people have come to dread the approach of the holidays, a season that should -- and can -- be the most relaxed, intimate, joyful, and spiritual time of the year. In this book, Bill McKibben offers some suggestions on how to rethink Christmastime, so that our current obsession with present-buying becomes less important than the dozens of other possible traditions and celebrations. Working through their local churches, McKibben and his colleagues found that people were hungry for a more joyful Christmas season. For many, trying to limit the amount of money they spent at Christmas to about a hundred dollars per family, was a real spur to their creativity -- and a real anchor against the relentless onslaught of commercials and catalogs that try to say Christmas is only Christmas if it comes from a store. McKibben shows how the store-bought Christmas developed and how out of tune it is with our current lives, when we're really eager for family fellowship for community involvement, for contact with the natural world, and also for the blessed silence and peace that the season should offer. McKibben shows us how to return to a simpler and more enjoyable holiday. Christmas is too wonderful a celebration to give up on, too precious a time simply to repeat the same empty gestures from year to year. This book will serve as a road map to a Christmas far more joyful than the ones you've known in the past. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)394.2663Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore General Customs Special Occasions Holidays Christian holidays ChristmasLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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