A pot of our homemade jam was our Christmas card to our family, friends and neighbours. It was a simple act of nurture, a thing to help them feel good whenever they spread it on toast.
Mama's ecological Christmas card for her neighbours were little plants she grew from cuttings. She popped them in a little pot, added a label of recycled Christmas card or a cereal box, and she was good to go.
Ecological Christmas cards to us were made from cards we kept on previous years. I guess they became postcards of sorts, but we were saving creation's forests and God's gotta approve of that.
We combined the feasting tradition with the greeting tradition with the home-baking tradition to make the most ecological Christmas cards imaginable. If we combined those traditions into one we cut out waste. So our Christmas cards were home-baked cookies of so many varieties, then we iced a beautiful message on top and gave them to our family, friends and community. Everyone had enough sweet food without buying anything - and of course we shared with everyone who needed food. Even if the cookies weren't the best in the world - they were all the world to us, they were the love that was around us all year.
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