"What we think of as Christmas music follows two main strains—call them Jesus Music and Santa Music—and they have both been overdone, at least for many folks, to the point of being oppressive."
"Families are scattered to the four winds; travel is expensive at best and dangerous at worst; ‘home for the holidays’ has become a sad joke, an excuse for arguments and disappointments."
"Yet what remains is the durability of the core mythological reality—that this is the time of year when we face down the darkest of dark, lay up stores of good food and good cheer."
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