Fish and Cherries Productions

Let’s take a moment to talk about Santa Claus. Kris Kringle. Para Noel. Jolly Old Saint Nick.

Most of us grew up with stories of the man and promises of him delivering our heart’s desires on Christmas day. As we got older, we naturally had less fanciful Christmas ideas and only kept the tradition alive for our kids. Now I’m going to ask something a little odd of you. I’d like you to keep the tradition alive in a different way. I’d like you to become someone’s Santa Claus.

Now I don’t mean getting them expensive gifts or anything as literal as that. I mean I’d like you to help make someone’s day. It could be a small thing like taking them to the park and enjoying the moment or a large thing like feeding a family that doesn’t make a lot of money. Because quite frankly, we live in some bleak times. Refugees are being turned away from places, bigoted madmen are the frontrunners for the Republican Presidential Nominees, Islamophobia is on the rise, people of the LGBT are being kicked out of their homes, it’s a mess all around. There’s a lot of fear in the nation right now. But if you take up the mantle of Santa Claus for one day or a few and find some way to give hope to some people around you… then this holiday might be a little happier.

Merry Christmas.