The Amazing But True Chia® Fable

Posted: December 10th, 2003 | Filed under: Culture, Features | No Comments »

Many are the stories of the season recounted each year during the holidays. Here is one fable not oft told.

Tis the tale of Claus Chia®nitsky and his arrival in America a quarter century ago. Inheriting land in the plains of Delaware, Claus immigrated from his homeland, Kringlevania, a republic founded by Father Christmas’s love children. Claus stowed away to the new country to work the land and find a bride.

He arrived during a blizzard, protected from the elements by the traditional Kringlevanian astrakhan on his head. He wore all his worldly possessions or carried them in his knapsack, including a jar of grandma’s borscht and a packet of salvia columbariae seeds given him as a gift by Uncle Chaim the Gardener. Read the rest of this entry »