The Gift of the Year*
6 min readDec 4, 2019
I love the holidays. I love the sight of a newly decorated Christmas tree, its branches bearing the history of holidays past, I love the smells of molasses and ginger cookies which I bake only at this time of the year, and I love the music which, in our house, I’m not allowed to play before October. But most of all I love the gifts. I love seeing packages wrapped in beautiful paper, tied up with bows, reflecting the twinkling lights of the season.
