By ALICE ROE
Guest Contributor
Christmas in Louisville. Words to explain: Full. Unpredictable. Lively.
Notice I didn’t use any explicitly joyful words. That’s because nothing about Christmas, in any place, is explicit. Christmas is meant to be implicit.
Christmas is meant to be full of love.
The kind of love you can’t see on the outside.
Excitingly unpredictable and one of the most lively experiences of all holidays.
Family. Love. Life: words to explain Christmas.
But in Louisville, any word is possible. Yes, even the bad ones.
In Louisville, Christmas is love.
So is Hanukkuh and Ramadan. This is because of all of the supportive and loving people.
No matter how our pictures look, they are not about Christmas. These pictures are about: Support. Love. Community.
Nothing about these words are specific to one time or day or place.
These words are Louisville.
Photos by Alice Roe, age 13.
Photos by Alice Roe, age 13.
Photo by Alice Roe, age 13.
Editor’s note: Dr. Kaylene Armstrong, adviser to the Northwestern News, spent Thanksgiving in Louisville, Kentucky, with her granddaughters, Alice Roe, 13, and Anna Roe, 9. These are their creations.