I’ve at all times considered Christmas-time..as a very good time; a sort, forgiving, charitable, nice time; the one time I do know of, within the lengthy calendar of the yr, when women and men appear by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely… Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew Fred, from A Christmas Carol.

Might all of us attempt to “open our shut-up hearts” and see one another as fellow passengers on this stunning and fragile planet.