Douglas Todd: Don’t be naive about Christmas. Be entranced

Friends who are parents of a young girl and boy recently told us their children “still believe” in Santa Claus.
Thus their cozy home feels like a particularly magical place in December. The mother and father, quietly happy, go about the rituals involved in keeping alive Santa’s presence for their children.
The parents are not Christian. Nor, like most Canadians, do they think of themselves as religious. But, like a couple of billion others around the world, they cherish Christm