But the Glow Remains

THIS IS an after-Christmas story. The tinsel is down; the dead needles are vacuumed up. But the glow remains. Rather, the glow arrived for the first time, and it's staying. Christmas is a thing of the heart. It's one gigantic AA meeting that nonalcoholics, too, can get in on emotionally. Christmas is no more than the love and the understanding I find over the coffee cups at every meeting I attend. But never before did I know how to love and accept being loved. No wonder Christmas always shook me.