Christmas communication is special
I love Christmas cards and letters. Each one is just a silent message, binding me to a friend or relative who may live far away. I even exchange cards with a woman whom I have never met. I think about the sender, remembering our relationship, our times together in years past. I'm now receiving cards from the third generation. Baby pictures and whole families too. I can picture those parents when they were babies. What a warm, happy feeling is experienced.
I have just finished reading "The Namesake," by Jhumpa Lahiri, published in 2003. It is about a boy whose parents came from India. His father is a college professor. They live in modern America but retain their Indian culture in their home and most of their friends also are Indian. So he and his younger sister grow up in two worlds. Rather interesting.
Now I have started a book about the origin of the Scotts-Irish people. It was loaned to me by a friend of my Exline family who is very Irish and he knows I have that background, too. So, I'm expecting to find my ancestors somewhere in this book. I'll report after I have finished it.
Back to Christmas. In spite of all the anti-Christmas publicity going on I plan to stand by my lifelong beliefs. Don't you?
— NORMA HANNAFORD
