My friend Åsa came to visit last year, right before Thanksgiving. When we passed a house decorated like this (it might even have been the same one) she took one look, and asked one question:-Why?
It's not that she doesn't appreciate holiday decorations. She does. She appreciates them more than the average person, in fact. But being from a country that, naturally, does not celebrate the most American of holidays she hadn't seen hay and dried corn decorated fences before and it didn't make any sense to her.I thought that was funny and I have thought of it every holiday since then, whichever one it has been. Because traditional things of any culture rarely make any sense in themselves. And if you actually take a look at them, they too are as weird as prettily arranged hay with miniature pumpkins on top.
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