Borrowing to Give Misses the Point of Christmas

<![CDATA[At the end of each year, we gather together for two great celebrations of abundance. Thanksgiving pulls us into warm kitchens and crowded dining rooms. We are enveloped in the fragrances of roasting turkey and butter and spice and Aunt Emily's floral perfume. Plates are passed, seconds are insisted upon, and our gratitude for having enough food becomes something worth lingering over. Christmas spills warmth and light into the darkest, coldest nights of the year. It transforms ordinary rooms into magic, bright with twinkle lights and evergreen branches, resonant with nostalgic and joyful music, and graced with wrapped gifts waiting under a tree. ]]>