Beautiful to some, nauseating to me
After viewing the photos and reading abut the winner of your “Holiday Lights” contest, I wanted to throw up. This competition is totally misnamed. It should be known as the Daily Herald’s “Annual Garish, Tawdry, Tacky and Revolting Display of Christmas Junk.”
What a complete waste of time, money and electrical and human energy. If these goofy homeowners had any true holiday spirit, they’d divert their misguided efforts toward this visual pollution and instead seek out the many charitable causes which abound: old people’s homes, children’s hospitals, Toys for Tots, Salvation Army, food programs, for the poor, sick, jobless and less fortunate. The list nowadays is endless.
But no, that course wouldn’t bring them the publicity and photo ops they desperately seek, only unacceptable anonymity.
Anyone with more money than taste and brains can decorate house and grounds with thousands of lights, mangers, wise men, reindeer, Santa Clauses, candy canes and all the rest, ad nauseam. All for what? To show off, to attract others of like mind to come and marvel and to prove that they, too, have no taste.
If Jesus Christ could ever come back and see the total mockery we’ve made of his simple but beautiful teachings, I believe he’d throw up, too.
Merry Christmas.
Walt Mars
St. Charles