Feeling young again

Your Center City Correspondent had a very pleasant Thanksgiving weekend, thanks for asking. Mrs. CCC cooks a wonderful turkey with all the trimmings and makes my mom’s sausage stuffing which is worth the price of admission itself. As tight as the parking can be on Green St., Thanksgiving brings a welcome relief when all the college kids go home and people travel to the hinterlands for their holiday. There are more parking spots on the street than there are parked cars. It gives an open, airy feel to the street, but as one fellow says, makes it a bit eerie, like was there an order to evacuate and we didn’t get it.




Thanksgiving is the start of the Christmas shopping season. I’m of the opinion that it gets started way too early. Do retailers really need to be open at 4 AM that Friday? What does that tell us about ourselves, when the need to spend money eclipses rational behavior? People say, but I saved $200 on a 97-inch TV! The banker in me says, no you didn’t save anything, you spent $1,000. Saving is when you put the money in the bank or under the mattress, not take it out and spend it. People don’t like to talk to me when I say things like that. What I really want to tell them is that they should focus on the first syllable of Christmas, and give thanks that we live in a world where a benevolent God will show us mercy for our failings, like our materialism that has replaced spiritualism as our guiding force.



But I must confess that Mrs. CCC and I went to Macy’s on that Friday to do a little shopping ourselves. We needed new bar glasses – we were tired of drinking wine from old jelly jars. And while we were there I stopped and watched the light show. You might remember it as the Wanamaker’s light show. It always brings back old memories, of going there as a kid with my parents and family. And then later on, bringing my own son there when he was young. I hope to be there when he brings his kids. It is a wonderful treat that will warm even the crustiest of hearts, as it did mine. So get down there and see it while you can. It will make you feel young again. And we can all give thanks for that feeling.



All for now. Enjoy your week.