Holiday Season

Yesterday was the official start of the holiday season. Retail workers were pulled from their family dinners to open up stores for people to buy items that will still be on sale next week. If the holiday season is about family, why are material items more important? The whole concept is contradictory. The cycle of buy, give, return is now in full motion. The most prized gifts that I have ever gotten were the ones that came from the heart and not from the store. It could be a card with my name scrawled on it. It could be a popsicle stick with two googly eves glued unevenly. It did not matter what it was. It only mattered who it was from.