The Christmas Card Color of the Year
Everyone has a favorite tradition associated with Christmas. Do you need to come home for Christmas? Do you have a special food that must be on the table? Is it the tree? The decorations? Evening church? The carols? With me, my favorite part of Christmas is the holiday cards. I spend more care picking them out than I do with most gifts. I send them out with joy and receive them with eager anticipation. I would rather get a card than a gift. The cards are torn open, scanned for happy family news and put on display where they can be seen hourly. In the year of our Lord, 2008, I found myself making a curious observation. No, it was more than curious; it was astounding. There they were, from one end of the entertainment center to the other, cards that celebrated the color pink! 2008 was the year of pink cards, bright themes that repeated pink, cartoon animals in pink. I even had Nativity scenes that were on a pink background. Light-hearted, happy,