December 11, 2005
A Junky Christmas
By Tom Lawson I”m going to have a junky Christmas this year. No doubt about it. In fact, all across the globe, there will be a lot of junk at Christmas””shiny, sparkly, noisy, pretty, passing junk. Trinkets of plastic, metal, cloth, leather, and gold. Some of it quite expensive. But, in the end, still junk. One person”s treasure is, after all, another person”s junk. A grown-up”s trinket can be a treasure to a child, or a grown-up”s treasure can be cast aside by a child as a trinket. A loaf of bread is hardly a treasure, unless you are dying
