Christmas Special 2005. Amidst the Falling Snow

Remember your first encounter amidst the falling snow? Snow absorbs sound, so when it falls, everything is enveloped in a blanket of silence. I have been thinking a lot about moments lately; how a single moment changes the course of everything. What do you remember in that one moment when you see the snow falling from the heavens? Some people only remember the bitter cold, but others remember that one moment of wonder, before that feeling of wonder eventually wears off. That is characteristic of moments – they never last long enough.

I didn’t make it for a Christmas Special last year (I made it for the Thanksgiving Special instead) and I felt it is time to create a Christmas Special for all the awesome readers out there! You know who you are… The theme for this Christmas Special is “moment”. Why? For it is not everyday you see Yoruki, Miles, Joan, Junko, Machiko and Saru-Ji celebrating one joyous moment together. The thing I love so much about Christmas is that people are generally more genial during Christmas; people are in the mood to give and share. Similarly, the characters in SKOOKUM! briefly forget all the shit they gotten themselves in and chooses to get together to celebrate Christmas.

As we are lost in the wonder of Christmas, we should at the same time consider all the graces we have received in the throughout this year. I am certain that we did not get everything we hoped for, but we should not lose sight of the things that were actually bestowed upon us that were denied from others. I have been meeting a lot of people all over the world lately, and the stories I heard were always somewhat similar, people gained something and they lost something at the same time. It is true however that some people gained more than others, but oh well, we only have ourselves to blame if we are not as cunning, scheming and malicious as the other guy. I learnt that while people respect you for being good, it never truly pays to be good; unless of course, in the afterlife.

I really hope you guys dig the Christmas Special, and prepare yourselves as SKOOKUM! enters its Second year in the running. Actually, it hasn’t really been a FULL year, considering all the time I was late for updates as well as the technical difficulties we faced which put us in a hiatus. I wanna promise a more vigorous SKOOKUM! come 2006, and I hope ALL of you stay tuned to the events that are about to unfold.

Happy Holidays!