Can we talk?

Dear Santa

Dear Santa,

  It doesn't matter whether I've been bad or good. Not for my list. I'm wishing for others, and it's not fair to withhold gifts from them based on my worthiness.

  I have a co-worker, one I'm not close to, who lost 3 close family members in a bombing in another land. It doesn't even matter what country, because this happens to so many in so many places. My wish is that bombing of all types stops. No more lives lost because of mass destruction. No more broken families, broken hearts, broken communities.

  This is a gift that people would soon forget and fail to appreciate once the bombing stopped for a while. But wouldn't that be nice? To let bombing fade from the mass memory. It wouldn't erase other kinds of evil, so that would be enough to occupy our minds.

    Stop the bombs, the IED's, the drones, the air-raids. It's just a beginning. Wouldn't that be a good gift for the earth? Better than toys or new clothes or fancy gadgets.