On Christmas....

It has been said best, already, so I will merely quote a late, great:

"...I am sure I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round - apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calender of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."

-an excerpt from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, spoken by Scrooge's nephew.