Paste in: Holidays

[frannyan]

http://www.newdream.org/holiday/index.php

What matters to you this holiday season?

If you were asked to describe the ideal holiday season, what would you
say? Perhaps you would include the company of loved ones, good food,
fun and relaxation… maybe an inch or two of snow. Aiming higher in our
holiday daydreams, we might even envision a feeling of tranquility and
peace blanketing our homes, our community, the wide world.

Whatever you imagined, contrast it now with the
typical mid-December scene at the mall, where countless holiday
shoppers weave between traffic, oscillating between oppressed weariness
and panic, as they search for non-existent parking spaces and that
perfect gift that says “I had no earthly idea what to get you, but
chose this particular item because, um, it is shiny and appears to cost
what I could reasonably be expected to spend.”

It's funny cause it's true. :D