Merry Christmas
Joelle Hattem
Christmas Card designed by Charley Harper for The Schaible Company in 1952
"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, once, though it has never put a scrap o gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good and will do me good; and I say God bless it!"
- As spoken by Fred (Scrooge's nephew) to Ebenezer Scrooge,
in Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol