It's only a few days until Christmas.
Closets are full of shopping bags bulging with presents yet to be wrapped.
The tree is already starting to drop needles. Christmas cookies are reduced to crumbs and sprinkles in the bottom of tins. The kids, worn out from an onslaught of parties and trips to the mall, make last-minute appeals for the newest toy they have seen advertised on television. You, like many others before, feel ready to embark on a campaign to simplify the Christmas holiday and recapture the joy and meaning of the season. I don't like the atmosphere, the commercialism, everyone fighting to buy things.