Do you remember two kinds of Christmases?

I hadn’t planned on doing the newsletter today. But then I realised it’s the anniversary of John Steinbeck’s death, it’s Christmas, and the world is on its knees. All of which left me with no option but to send you these few paragraphs, from a letter of Steinbeck’s written late-1959.

Adlai, do you remember two kinds of Christmases? There is one kind in …