The ebb and flow of life has carried me to a variety of countries. As some of you know we live in Asia. 2007 has been difficult in many ways. My wife's mother was forced to move in with us this spring. My wife's father, hospitalized a year ago this time, passed away several weeks ago.
That said, Christmas is my favorite holiday. The myth and the commercial mumbo-jumbo don't bother me much. Christmas is, for me, a time of rebirth, intense optimism and unconditional love. It's a time for giving. It's the (rare) time I make an extra effort to find the good in folks I normally think very little of. But that's not the point.
The point is that this year in 2008 millions of people in North America will spend Christmas in shelters, on welfare, or on the street.
I know. I've done all three.
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