[Gpdd] misc; Merry Christmas

[Ginger Fitzsimmons]

Point of historical curiosity: The Puritans who settled my area 
(Massachusetts) looked with extreme disfavor on Christmas celebrations 
as excessively non-Christian. It appears that Christmas was quite 
controversial and legally banned in Boston at one point. It's not that 
way now, with a city Christmas tree and all. But my non-celebration has 
deep historical roots here even if almost everyone around me has 
forgotten them.

That said, I've decided that most people who wish me a Merry Christmas 
really do mean well and I say thank you or I wish them the same. Life 
is too short to not cut most people some slack.

ginger
slave to Mr. Mike T. Pig