Starting the Season.

Tomorrow we start the month of December. A month in which the U.S. will spend more than in any other month of the year. The debt increases and we sit on what Edward R. Murows referred to as "our fat surpluses."

Stay chipper, everyone. It's the most wonderful time of the year, right? Try this: give to someone other than yourself or a loved one. Just one person you don't really know or like very much... try giving them something for which they will remember you fondly.

A smile. A kind greeting. A card with more than just a pithy catchphrase writen in it. Forgiveness. Compassion. Sit with someone you disagree with and ask them what would have to be done to understand each other.

I'm not a man of religious faith, and that should not exclude me from the teachings of any one practice. This is espescially true when the doctrines are as welcoming as they are for empathy and benevolence.