The Winter Solstice and New Year celebrations are now behind us. The tables, windowsills and shelves of many homes and apartments are filled with greeting cards bearing warm words and wishes of happiness and good fortune. But what are the origins of postcards, and what did they look like 10, 50, 100 years ago?
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While preparing an article about old New Year greeting postcards from various countries, an interest arose to search the web and compile information on how to wish "Happy New Year!" in the languages of near and far countries - Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Irish, Belarusian, Basque, Serbian, Chinese, and others.
Well, the Winter Solstice celebrations will have been properly welcomed and celebrated. After all, this year the calendar gave us five free days from 24 to 28 December. The New Year holidays from 30 December to 4 January 2009 will be no shorter. For the holidays to be full of warmth and cheer, here are some New Year greeting verses from the iinuu notebook.
At the time of waiting for Christmas - to say, write and send each other bright thoughts, words and wishes! That is why I decided to share the Christmas greeting verses accumulated in my notebook.
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Despite today's advanced technological world, I believe that Christmas cards in particular must be tangible and definitely handwritten (rather than printed or e-cards). Then these greetings seem to retain the warmth and tenderness of the hands that the writer puts into the few words, or even the rather standardised greeting phrases. Share your experience - are you also a sworn greeting-card writer?