Letters November 16, 1992 Issue

BACK & FORTH

a dialogue with readers

We know what we do not want our holiday gift-giving to be about. We don't want it to be merely an obligation we must fulfill. We don't want to spend a lot of time shopping, only to have our gift sit unused on a shelf after the festivities. We don't want to give a gift just so that someone will like us more!

We want our gifts to mean something.

Here are a couple of notes we received that said so much about the true spirit of gift-giving—and the self-sacrifice that blesses others.

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