On Preparing for Christmas Eve

Christmas is just around the corner, and so is Christmas Eve.

I've been preparing for Christmas Eve, on Nochebuena in Spanish, all year. It's kind of my favorite day of Christmas. Most of the time, we celebrate my paternal grandmother's birthday on Christmas Eve whenever she visits Chicago from Mexico.

This year, she isn't going to visit since she spent the whole summer through October in Chicago. But, I saw that my tía Coco decorated the corner of her living room for the holiday season.
I have a mostly positive life experience with Christmas Eve. I even made an experimental documentary film about one Christmas Eve in 2016. Then last year, I wrote a poetry minizine that sums up my experience with the day before Christmas, or the night of it. I decided to make copies of it to pass around.

I can't wait for Nochebuena. I've waited all year for it. Happy holidays, folks, wherever you may be!

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