Christmas Traditions

How did they begin?

Bob Jasper
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readDec 24, 2022

--

Photo by Chad Madden on Unsplash

A dear friend, Jill Ebstein, who wrote a wonderful, educational piece on Chanukah asked me to write about our Christmas traditions. As I thought about it, I realized that most families have their own, personal traditions, but there are, perhaps, a few overarching ones.

The Christmas Tree

--

--

Bob Jasper
ILLUMINATION

My Muse is in hiding, but we cross paths from time to time. I think I gave the old guy too much grief. Maybe he quit without notice.