The Art of Gift Giving
The Art of Gift Giving The Holiday Season is a stressful time. It seems that we rush from here to there with a seemingly endless checklists of parties and social obligations, fun activities and once a year charitable service. There’s baking and decorating and caroling. And presents to wrap. And the shopping. The never ending, soul draining shopping. Forget whatever else they tell you, it was the shopping that drove the Grinch to hide in that cave. Thanks to the constant artillery shelling of commercials that equate love with the amount and price tag of gifts, people often shop themselves into exhaustion and debt. Surely, that it what our loved ones want? Right? A shiny new present to show how much we care. Isn’t that what gift giving is all about? The truth is there is a true art to gift giving that has little to do with the amount spent on the gift. Or not spent for that matter. To be a truly great gift gi...