Now that we have gotten the Halloween and Thanksgiving holidays out of the way, it is time to open our pocketbooks for that orgy of consumption known as Christmas in the English speaking world. How a day of celebration of the birth of the promised Messiah to a minor religion in the middle east became the spectacle so many of us participate in is a continuing source of wonder to me. Billions of words have attempted to explain Christmas from the theory it was piggybacked on the Roman holiday of Saturnalia to the Druids of England and the celebration of the Winter Solstice. In any case, it is once again upon us, as are the expectations of the children among us.
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