Comments on: Gift-Getting http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/?p=4637 Stimulating musings on culture, current events and politics. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:20:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shane Vander Hart http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/?p=4637&cpage=1#comment-11361 Shane Vander Hart Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:22:24 +0000 http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/?p=4637#comment-11361 So true Emily! So true Emily!

]]> By: M. Hovda http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/?p=4637&cpage=1#comment-11358 M. Hovda Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:20:46 +0000 http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/?p=4637#comment-11358 I think the themes from "Bowling Alone" can be applied. We are in a culture where we really don't encourge deep relationships even among family members. So we don't have any idea on what they would like. We ask for a list because we really don't know them or we don't know whats happening in thier lives. I'm not asking for yester year but part of the drama of the gift giving and the gift getting was the wonder of what the present would be and wondering how the recipient would recieve the gift Niel Postman Amusing ourselves to Death" Along those line I think the themes from “Bowling Alone” can be applied. We are in a culture where we really don’t encourge deep relationships even among family members. So we don’t have any idea on what they would like. We ask for a list because we really don’t know them or we don’t know whats happening in thier lives.

I’m not asking for yester year but part of the drama of the gift giving and the gift getting was the wonder of what the present would be and wondering how the recipient would recieve the gift

Niel Postman Amusing ourselves to Death” Along those line

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