Following up my post about Hundreds of trashed dead Christmas pagan trees, 2025 from late February, I saw what I figure will be the last one thrown out for the season at the end of March.

That’s how many trees we kill for a holiday tradition based in a different time and place, that we’re still throwing them away, like octopuses in the garbage, months after the holiday. Different either than now, when landfills are full and old growth forests empty, or when Jesus was born, which was Bethlehem, a place with no sleigh bells ringing or reindeer.

I’m sure Jesus is pleased, looking down from above if he is, that his birthday is being so honored, by stuffing the misplaced symbol of his birth amid plastic garbage bags.

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