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Provincetown :: Thursday, September 2nd 2010
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Notes from Land's End: Dec. 21
Believe in Miracles
By Laura Shabott
December 19th, 2009
When I leave Provincetown for a shopping expedition, I stop by the Sweet Escape/ Savory Pizza Grill on Route 6 to grab a cup of coffee for the ride. This particular day, my mind was racing around itself. Gifts! Wrapping Paper! Boxes! On and On! Christmas sucks!
| Walking into the restaurant, there was a simple sign in the window: Believe in Miracles. |
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Walking into the restaurant, there was a simple sign in the window: Believe in Miracles.
I slowed down and took a deep breath. Yeah, that’s what Christmas is about. It’s not supposed to be about screaming down the highway to get more stuff in Orleans. I walked in to the cozy, friendly place, got a coffee, inhaled the aroma of a cooking pizza and saw acquaintances who’s own stories are miracles. There was the guy who cleaned up his act and became the success he had always dreamed about. He was chatting with a woman who had always wanted a child and here she was with her baby in tow.
Back in the car, I looked up the word miracle, “an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs” in my handy Webster’s dictionary. Wow. Where had my sense of wonder gone in the hurry to get this holiday over with?
In days gone by, when 200 kids lived in Provincetown, Santa came to Town Hall once a year. St. Nick was really “Bootsie” Carreiro or Jess “Burr” Ferriera but those kids believed it was Santa! An entire auditorium of children were munching on candy and waiting their turn to sit on his lap and get a present.
The original St. Nicholas, a forth century Bishop, gave extraordinary kindness and generosity to those in need. 2,004 years later, America's jolly Santa Claus is still a Christmas hero. Kids still go to see him in Eastham with a trolley that goes from the Red Barn to the Elks Club across the street. Grabbing his own cup of Joe at Savory, parent Todd Fleming says that it’s an awesome place to visit Santa with his two children.
Adults and children alike have it good on the Outer Cape. And that is my Christmas miracle.
www.savoryandsweetescape.com
www.eastham-ma.gov
www.christmastreeshop.com
www.capecodtoday.com
Artistic bon vivant Laura Shabott loves to write about Provincetown. A graduate of the SMFA, Boston, she is practiced in writing, acting and painting.
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