Merry Christmas
Dec. 25th, 2011 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesA safe and happy Christmas to you all.
I have already had what I expect to be the best present I get this year -- four hand-made peppermint creams, made and posted by a friend who six months ago was not capable of finding her way home from 100 metres down a straight path, let alone the post office. $STUFF is nice, and I am grateful for it, but I am even more grateful for less tangible things. One of those things is the NHS, both as an institution, and as an embodiment of a concept which is known to those of many faiths and no faith, but is summarised in mine as "You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
I have already had what I expect to be the best present I get this year -- four hand-made peppermint creams, made and posted by a friend who six months ago was not capable of finding her way home from 100 metres down a straight path, let alone the post office. $STUFF is nice, and I am grateful for it, but I am even more grateful for less tangible things. One of those things is the NHS, both as an institution, and as an embodiment of a concept which is known to those of many faiths and no faith, but is summarised in mine as "You shall love your neighbour as yourself."