Like many, I enjoy watching the Hallmark Christmas movies each year. Though they get increasingly predictable, sappy, and contrived, I still like seeing the Christmas decorations and how a group of people come together to solve a problem.
Recently, I spotted a story on Thrillist when I was looking for information for 2021 travel plans. It’s a story about a town that came together to keep the local hospital open at the beginning of the CoVid-19 pandemic. And then, of course, they were rewarded with an extravagant town light display. Very Hallmark-y. Still, it’s good to know that people in the community can help each other out in real life, too.
You can read the story and see the lights here: https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/why-makers-mark-turned-this-tennessee-town-into-a-holiday-wonderland
There are better shots of the lights’ display on the Makers’ Mark page, which sponsored the contest: https://www.smalltownbrightlights.com/
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I always dreamed of being a writer, but never thought I could make money doing it. So, after earning a BA in English and honing my reading, analytical, and writing skills, I settled for a more "stable" career in ministry (joking, of course!), bringing my love for the written word to my Biblical studies as I learned Greek and Hebrew, Exegesis and Theology while getting an MA in Theological Studies.
I've worked in various ministry capacities in the church: children's minister, ministry staff (aka, "whatever needs doing"), ESL teacher, youth intern, and others.
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Yes, Hallmark and some Lifetime movies ( you can get a sense of what I’m tortured with by my “Better Half”!) are a bit predictable, but in a sort of good way. It’s refreshing to see “nice” people acting civilly to one another. For that, I’ll take Sappy over Reality all day long.
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Haha! Yes, I similarly torture my husband with the Hallmark movies each year. It usually serves as fodder for many jokes.
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Lol about the comments about wives torturing there husbands with hallmark movies. I really enjoy sitting down with the wife for hallmark fare, great heckling material. But I also admit that usually the acting is high quality, the problem is that the scripts are rushed messes.
Although it’s not hallmark, you should check out this disaster, guaranteed laugh a minute ->
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7074092/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2
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Thanks for the recommendation 🙂
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