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christmas day gave love true

As young children growing up in Malabon, Rizal now a city in Manila , the coming of Christmas had always been an exciting period for us in the clan. Just as when the months that ends in ber started, we always got ourselves busy for days looking in swamps for mangrove branches with twigs intact, to prune and remove its leaves to make our holiday tree. Too bad that today's youth cannot imagine an organic Christmas tree from mangrove branches as opposed to the store-bought plastic ones. The Mangrove Bakawan Mangroves or Bakawan are trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats in the tropics and subtropics. Making the Christmas Tree After acquiring the chosen branch with its twigs, we would wrap it with materials based on our chosen design. we would be hanging our old tiny plastic toys and scavenging for scrapped cigarette foils from Grandma's convenience store to collect enough glitter materials for our humble mangrove Christmas tree. After trimming our tree, it was time for our old folks usually it was Uncle Edgar, mom's brother to install some Christmas lights to truly complete it and enjoy the warming ambiance it gave our young joyous hearts. We did not care how our elders planned the Christmas menu, which mostly composed of Filipino-Spanish and Chinese fare like morisqueta, morcon, embotido, fish relleno, pancit Malabon, sopas Molo, Chinese Ham, queso de bola, various traditional desserts and more. No excitement either over the festive clothes our parents would buy or make us to wear on Christmas Eve mass. It was all about dressing our Mangrove Christmas tree. The Christmas Buzz For about two weeks before Christmas day, each of our waking hours except when we were in school would be spent making our own gifts for every family member, young and old. None of them cost a fortune but never failed to delight their receivers on Christmas day. You couldn't blame me for being overly excited about that for we were raised to live quite modestly, our Christmas moments were easily satisfied with apples, and chocolates, which today's children could acquire anytime they please except by the poor ones. But, the saddest thing really is there are almost no more mangrove trees left in Malabon or in many other parts of the country to make a Christmas tree out of. Let me put it this way, my conscience will bother me if I try to disturb what little mangrove trees I could find these days, if there are any left in my town. Searching the Christmas Spirit Christmas is a Christian tradition whether you are rich or poor. Glimpses of my childhood yuletide under the Mangrove Christmas tree can no longer be captured in photographs and the ones we had were lost during a deep flood in Malabon. With that, happy Christmas days of childhood will be just fond memories for all of us, children in the clan, now mostly with graying hair. Today, plastic Christmas trees are readily available in Divisoria or nearby malls. In thirty minutes, you can erect a Christmas tree without any help; An instant Christmas tree, a bit devoid of character that a do it yourself organic one can possess. Yes, we reminisce and sigh, our mangrove Christmas tree is now but a memory, but its spirit lives on to those once my fellow children and the life lessons it represented linger in our character. With the current commercialized Christmas approaching, the spirit is there but you may no longer be a part of it, but just a part of the shopping crowd. After all, Christmas is supposed to be Jesus' birthday…not ours. Meanwhile, I will close my eyes… lie under my synthetic imitation and imagine I am lying under the Mangrove Christmas tree of my youth.
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