Time for a break

Christmas this week and it seems like the working world is shutting down for a much needed break. I am avoiding the consumer buzz of the shopping centres and am giving hand made gifts - pickles of course. My friend Sally was saying to me last night that she doesn't celebrate Christmas as it is a christian holiday and she is not a christian. I found her take refreshing. But Christmas to me is more about family than anything else, as an excuse or reason for the family to make the effort to gather together. And some compulsory quiet time that the whole world is in need of.