The Spirit of Christmas
by Ian McCarthy-Kelley '17
What I want for Christmas
is not so much a thing as it is a Feeling It is the Electric feeling in the air the Palpable Static which comes from every storefront and every suburban front lawn filled with perpetual reminders that for One month out of Twelve we are expected to be Joyous and Kind It is the feeling of bringing from basements boxes filled with relics imbued with a lifetime of Memories and of unpacking Traditions which have an even greater weight And we wrap these feelings up in lights and trees and oversized socks and in old standard songs and cinema with themes of Joy and of Love and of God As I have gotten older Christmas Day has seemed less important because I no longer wait to see what Santa Claus has brought but the Season maintains its power and I suppose It always will |