Mary Had a Little Lamb

How will you celebrate -- or navigate through -- the holidays?  Garrison Keillor writes: “The aim of a festive season is to attain amiability, and perhaps actual joy, which we may find in our private moments, but which at Christmas we seek to attain together.  The family gathers, with its checkered history, hoping to share warmth, and to instill in even the most sullen member a measure of good cheer.  The beauty of Christmas is that it is not about us, our creativity, our fabulous décor, or the glittering gifts we can afford. It is about a story and a ritual that can lift us all.”  How might we re-claim the timeless stories that transform the human heart?