Things

A walk through the aisles of Macy's or any other such store, sometimes beginning in August there is no doubt that Christmas is on the way - not the Christmas that goes with the story of the birth that supposedly took place in Bethlehem a couple of millennium ago, but the Christmas that goes with exchanging gifts, from clay plaques into which have been pressed the hands of five year old's, to the BMW's and diamonds being hawked on TV, as though we could all afford them. Why are we so ...