My four Christmas Cards. Not yet my Four Quartets.

I've used some time during these holidays to do some creative work. Christmas and New Year always make me feel a little bit sentimental. When I was a little child, Christmas was the most important celebration in the year. Life was not so stressing as it is nowadays, and the kind of big disappointments and little miseries in all the realms of existence were not so extreme, at least from the perspective of a teenager. This year is special: we all are going through the big crisis that the political, social and religious tensions all over the world have brought about. To refer to such terms as "recession" and "depression" -to talk only about the abstract ones- is not very encouraging in a teacher who loves English, culture,freedom and his work and who wants to motivate his students as much as he can. Anyway, I'm fighting all the possible negative feelings hard. These four Christmas Cards are a proof of my decision. We must keep in mind that in Depression we must be ready to work harder to achieve stability and prosperity again . We cannot become sad and nihilistic now, when the economy is stagnant. At University, the teaching and researching standards must be kept during these critical years, granting both social cohesion and the intellectual and technological improvement that are necessary to build up the new prosperity. On a personal level, a person who becomes careless about his/her work or studies runs the risk of ruining his/her life.
Anyway, I don't want to sound that fatalistic. We should organize a film session and see "The Purple Rose of Cairo," by Woody Allen. It is a very moving film about the difficult times of the past.


I hope you like the cards!