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Hallmark Lobby Christmas Tree
(with the Mayor's Christmas Tree in the background) |
I
drive a vanpool
from Lansing to downtown, midtown and the Plaza areas of Kansas City,
Missouri every weekday. My final stop, before heading to my own work
place, is Crown Center, the 'home' of
Hallmark Cards.
As you can see from the slightly blurry cellphone photo I took this
morning, the decorations at the world headquarters for Hallmark simply
exude the Spirit of Christmas. I need this extra immersion for
Christmas cheer to confront
the gauntlet of bland and vaguely wintery decorations my building lobby
sports. I left the house without my red and green ball Christmas tree
ornaments, so I can't 'occupy' the decorations today. And I have my
uncle to thank for that 'Occupy Christmas' idea, thanks to a comment he
posted to my post yesterday about the prevalence of unholiday
decorations littering the lobby.
For the entire drive in this
morning, I kept thinking of picket sign slogans I could hand paint for
such an occupation, such as: "
Jesus is the Reason for the Season" or "
Put Christ Back in Christmas" or "
The Cross (X) Marks the Spot" and so on. Rather than being the 99% we could be (and are)
100% loved by Him. I know I'll be saying "
Merry Christmas" rather than "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" for the next thirty or so days (until
Epiphany anyways).
I'm
also curious about the decorations in the lobby of your workplace
buildings. Snap a photo with your cell phone and comment with the link
to participate in this unofficial and informal survey of corporate
expressions of Christmas (or unHoliday) cheer.
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