Artistic Wish

Christmas: a holiday celebrated in any way.
There are so many thoughts about it. It's a time for families to get together. Like any normal day, it's a day when friends hang out. Young lovers hope to get closer. It is a time also to give.
The time of giving and getting, it seems to be a corporate tradition that sales are held for items to be gifts, for the loud paper to wrap said items in, and for the decorations. That's the commercial part of it, and it's something to annoy me. Still, decorating the pine tree to have standing in the living room or wherever is a bonding moment for parents for their small children.

Christmas is also a time for art. The art seems to be in the decorations, telling what the person likes and what the person is like. Artistic sweatshirts? It sounds so true having all those ridiculous sweaters and not liking them. Fruitcake seems to something people avoid. When baking the cookies and sweets, there is no limit in creativity. Even though it leaves messes, how those sweets turn out make it worth the mess. One always needs to tidy their spaces after making a painting. That's a fact of life.
I have seen much art over this December when watching "Cake Wars: Christmas" and "Holiday Baking Championship" on Food Network. Even though they make their mistakes and find frustration, surely there's fun in competing to make the best themed sculptures and dioramas. I watched people stack cakes, mold with sugar glass, carve fruits and vegetables, and more, while the teams argued as if they were brothers and sisters. I saw the bakers be creative with their cakes, while reflecting a part of themselves. That's how art works. Like with other finales, those tournaments really ended with a bang.

Entertainment? We have Christmas episodes and movies. "A Christmas Carol" remains a classic. It was as a book, but there have been too many versions of it in movies and as TV episodes. Of course, all TV shows have episodes set around Christmas and one looks forward to how it turns out for the characters. However, it's not every day that we have a video game set around that day or in the winter. And don't get me started on Christmas carols. I'm never singing those again. And pop stars try to make a quick dollar recording a holiday song, be it another's cover or their own.
I've talked a lot about it. Surely, my few readers know that I now prefer to listen to Nightwish in honour of the band's founder, Tuomas Holopainen, who was born on a Christmas Day. I love that band, and they have been rather inspirational to me. The fantasy feeling given by their songs must make it an appropriate choice. There's talk of "Christmas magic". Magical is just one of the many words to say about the music of Nightwish.

As for me and what has gone on over this year, I've been depressed. Don't say it's winter downs. That may not be accurate. Where I live, it didn't feel anywhere near winter on this day. I can say what has happened with me. I've grown as a writer and I'm still growing at that. Imagination is something that can never be taken away from anyone. I do have a new year's resolution for this upcoming year, and it involves my work.
And to my friends on dA: I would have no one like you to even send messages to you. When I was scared over a possible trick in July, I told several of you, you're like family to me, like brothers and sisters. I did mean it. My dA contacts are like family and I hope to remain close to you.

Without further ado, time for my friends' feature. Enjoy my selection.