As I was blowing the dust off my last blog, I noticed a theme that I felt I had been thinking through recently. Because my last blog was a year ago, I mentioned my thoughts on Christmastime. Added to that, through a series of strange events which I will elaborate on, I am reading Siddhartha for the first time right now during the Christmas season.

So first of all the back story: Strangely, my husband gave his personal, used copy of Siddhartha to a young friend who was moving away. Now I know my husband and I are different, but it made me ponder about the fact that the book was so important to him, yet I had never read it myself. Secondly, I realize amongst educated people there are some books that are just a necessity to have a cultural literacy about. Finally, a couple of my students were reading the book two days after my husband had given it away. When I mentioned my not having read it story, the very next day one of my students brought me their copy and insisted I read it over Christmas break. So there I was, starting off reading this philosophical book in the season of indulgence.

I am nearly finished at this point, but as I was again reading through my blog from last year, a question just kept coming to my mind about the whole middle road of peace and tranquility concept: Don’t you have to experience, for example, the total and complete overindulgence of one season to truly appreciate the hunger pangs of the next?

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