From the Editor
Merry Christmas, happy holidays
Living, as we do, here in the best corner of the world, far away from the worst of the desperation, grief and violence that assaults us every time we take a look at the television or national news, it is sometimes easy to forget that human pain and misery still manages to reach us here. It is hidden, mostly, but it is here nonetheless and it takes no holiday, even if our calendars say it should. Families break up, businesses go under, workers get let go, children fall astray, illness comes, bad decisions grab us back by the throat. Quiet tragedies, they do not make the public news, but they are tragedies nonetheless and most of us know of several of them at least.But it is Christmas, the holiday season, the time for giving, the time for forgiveness. And we are, simply by definition of where we live, fortunate people by any objective standard, most of us in a position to help, to give, even forgive. Somewhere there is somebody in our towns that needs help or forgiveness or both this season. We are pretty sure that none of you need this paper or any other to tell you where they are.
Go on. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.
