Gift Us With Your Stories of Giving
December Monthly Challenge
If you’re familiar with penguin mating rituals, you may know the male penguin searches meticulously for the smoothest, most polished pebble to gift a potential mate.
Similarly, you may be familiar with the gift of a dead rodent from your dog or cat.
Thankfully, most humans have different cultural norms regarding gifts and giving.
But this has got me thinking — how many of us have had to unlearn the idea of gifts as we grow older (and wiser of course)?
How many people in your life seem to have a very different philosophy on gifting than you do?
I can name a few. And this is probably where we get the saying — it’s the thought that counts.
One of my favorite books as a child was The Sweet Smell of Christmas, a scratch-and-sniff book about a family of bears celebrating the holidays. In the book, the family experiences the gifts of Christmas: hot chocolate in a big mug, baking gingerbread cookies, and an orange placed in a hanging stocking.
