At
Christmas, all roads lead home.
Marjorie
Holmes
As I wrote in my last story, I’m
rushing around inworld visiting places that will soon be closing down for the
year. With today being Christmas Eve, I
wanted to see several Christmas sims before the Holiday.
Juggling Real Life (RL) Holiday activities, I managed to
get some time in Second Life (SL) to TP into a few Christmas sims and drop by
some friends’ places done up for the Holiday.
(While this was going on, Significant Other]s eyes were rolling
believing that most people have enough trouble dealing with the Holidays in RL
let alone adding in SL.)
I randomly select three Christmas sites listed on the SL Destination
Guide (OK, maybe it wasn’t a
scientific sampling, I went for the names that sounded appealing.) and head off on my Holiday jaunt.
First, I TP into 2012
Christmas Town. A good crowd of
other celebrators is about and lag doesn’t appear to be bad. The setting is an urban area feted out for
Christmas.
From here, I head off to Christmas at
Calas. Again, there’s a fair sized
crowd of merry makers about and no signs of lag about. (I guess the lag Grinch is off somewhere else
today.) This sim is an appealing country
winter scene fitted out for the Holidays.
My last pick from the Destination Guide is Christmas
at Winter Holiday Village which is a small village suitably done up
for the season. As with my last two
stops, people are celebrating and lag is nowhere to be found.
After my random pass through Christmas sims from the
Destination Guide, I head off to visit the homes of several friends who make a
point of decorating for the Holidays. (Unlike
me whose Nowaki
home looks about as Christmasy as well, you get the idea.)
I’d read that Lindal Kidd had done up her tropical home for the Holidays
so I dropped by at her home at Masocado to
check her handiwork out. As I tend to
come and go in SL at odd RL times, I wasn’t able to meet Lindal or anyone else
when I arrived. But the decorations were beautiful and fun to see. If anyone can make the tropics look like
Christmas it’s Lindal!
Next, I’m off to Christmas at Jamaica Inn
to check in Hibiscus
Hastings’ and Janey
Bracken’s handiwork with their Christmas decorations. As usual, they’ve done a beautiful job from
the crèche to the Santa Claus scenes.
(If you drop by make sure to check out the Christmas shop!)
My next stop is Holiday Fest in Tribute City which I’ve written about
earlier. SL’s answer to Venice had been
done up in classic Christmas style. (OK,
RL Venetians might have other opinions but I like it!) Jessii
Warrhol was about so I got to
wish her a Merry Christmas. Many other
residents were in evidence as I wandered about.
Finally, I TP over to see Arik Metzger’s Lovecraftian opus
dedicated to Christmas which I recommend to anyone looking for something a bit
different for the Holidays.
This has been a bit of a whirl wind tour for me. I wanted to see some of the Christmas sims
before the Holiday and when they begin to close down. I wish I’d taken the time to spend more time
there with friends but this sounds like a project for the New Year. (More on these in a later post!)
The spirit of Christmas is alive and well in SL. Even when the sim does not have a direct tie
in to Christmas, trees, wreaths, lights, and other decorations are very much in
evidence inworld. (Even when there is a
very real culture clash not to mention aesthetics.)
If you haven’t already done so,I also suggest that you drop by to visit Perryn
Peterson‘s A Christmas Carol which will also close on December 31st.
But Christmas isn’t about the decorations, the glitter, and
gifts. Christmas is about our humanity
to each other and reaching back to our homes.
While I would never suggest that SL should supplant RL when it comes to
home, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with saving a little home for SL and
our friends there.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Below are links to a few pictures from my visits. They give a sense of what they’re like. But you really have to see and experience
them for yourselves.
As always, I’m grateful to
all for their kindness and time in stopping to talk with a stranger who was
passing through their lives.
I welcome feedback from
readers, please either comment on my blog or
e-mail me at webspelunker@gmail.com
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Photo No. 2 Christmas
at Calas
Photo No. 3 Christmas
at Winter Holiday Village
Photo No. 4 Nativity
Scene at Jamaica Inn
Photo No. 5 Snow
Falling at Jamaica Inn
Photo No. 6 Holiday
Fest in Tribute City
Photo No. 7 Christmas
Tree at Masocado
Photo No. 8 A
Lovecraftian Christmas
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