Charlie Brown

I grew up loving Charlie Brown. Weirdly as a kid, I think you process it differently. While looking for quotes this morning, I wondered if Charlie Brown was depressed?  A lot of the quotes listed are really quite bleak, or at list down on himself. I wonder why I didn't pick that up as a kid?

My kids never really got into it, but I wonder if it's still has huge as it was, seeing all the anxiety out there in youth. It sort of should be.

I did love this one "In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back."

My holiday homework is to re read a Charlie Brown book. I can compare with how it hits as an adult. I shall return, no doubt with something to say on the matter.

I do think this sums up perfectly the ridiculous frenzy of extra work and deadlines we give ourselves as we scramble around at Christmas time, so that we are stressed over things that REALLY don't matter. I've been reading all these Elf on the Shelf complaints where parents are stressed or opting out mid way and fighting about who should be doing it. I am 100% thankful that idea didn't exist when my kids were growing up. The advent calendar was the every day countdown excitement enough, and some years finding time to visit Santa in the city got tricky (though always done). And I'm sure I've mentioned our tooth fairy often got so overworked that they had to come to our house the next day...

"Grownups are the ones who puzzle me at Christmastime… Who, but a grownup, would ruin a beautiful holiday season for himself by suddenly attempting to correspond with four hundred people he doesn’t see all year?"

Anyway, this was on a bin near us and I just loved it. It made me smile.

"Happiness is anyone and anything at all that’s loved by you."

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