Santa is Coming to Town!

Kind of hard to believe it now but 28 years ago, more or less on this day, I dressed up as Santa Claus for a room full of 3-5 year old Taiwanese children in Tainan, Taiwan. 
It was Christmas eve and I, as the "English teacher" was there to show the kids how Santa looks in Western countries. 
Pretty funny since I never got anywhere near Santa Claus in my New York-Israel Jewish upbringing, but who's counting anyway...in fact, Santa Claus is a pretty cool concept wherever you go, since we are all human beings who were once children and who does not love a "good-doing Grandpa" who is there to make us smile, give us gifts and excitement.

So Happy Santa and Merry Christmas to all of you good people out there wherever you are! Let's remember that if we did not have Santa we would have to invent him...kindness is not a parochial, narrow and sectarian thing but a common human theme so essential to our lives. As the Dalai Lama once said: "Kindness is my religion."