Every year I put up a modest little display of outdoor Christmas lights, the same basic design year after year and it pleases me when I drive home after dark. They are on timers so they cheerfully greet me and anyone else driving by on my dark country road. They don't twinkle or anything, they just glow.
However, for the last two nights I've been watching a TV show called "The Great Christmas Light Fight" and I must say the displays these people have come up with are absolutely mind boggling. There is a prize of $50,000 to the winner but it's obvious that these displays are works of love that have been evolving over years and years. Some spread over acres and acres of land, one includes a 70 foot tall "tree", one is a detailed recreation of a Disney dream and one includes a train ride, and on and on. As I struggle with light envy here I am consoling myself with one thought. Whoever wins that $50,000 will probably spend all of it on their electric bill.
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