there are many things from which i might have derived good ,by which i have not profited, christmas among the rest....

but i am sure i have always thought of Christmas-time. when it comes around, as a good and charitable time....

when men and women, of one consent, open their shut up hearts, and see other people as fellow passengers to the grave- and not as members of a different race, on different journeys.

and though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, i say god bless it !

- paraphrased from a speech by Scrooges nephew in A Christmas Carol!-Charles Dickens-

that's what i would say.