Christmas is a Verb 12/18/2016 As a boy, Christmas was about GETTING. Let's face it, it's hard to avoid this paradigm with the ubiquitous emphasis on decorated trees, brightly packaged gifts, and lots of yummy food. And I ate it all up. Being a kid who loved Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comics, when my mum and dad got a large, fluffy Snoopy toy to sell in our family's corner shop, I knew I had to have it. I was eight or nine. Christmas was approaching. My parents were kind and generous but also had to draw the line from time
As a boy, Christmas was about GETTING. Let's face it, it's hard to avoid this paradigm with the ubiquitous emphasis on decorated trees, brightly packaged gifts, and lots of yummy food. And I ate it all up. Being a kid who loved Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comics, when my mum and dad got a large, fluffy Snoopy toy to sell in our family's corner shop, I knew I had to have it. I was eight or nine. Christmas was approaching. My parents were kind and generous but also had to draw the line from time
