I am just including my post from a seperate thread:
I love the season. My liking has little to do with the commercialization that has all but taken it over. I try to hang on to the few shards of peace and contentment and care for others that this time of year brings about. Mr. Dickens phrased it well:
"I am sure I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round"— "as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."... "And therefore"..."I believe that it has done me good and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"
Happy Christmas Everyone! 
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. - Emerson
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde