dearest Shirley,

...what is of Christmas besides its peril in cost and blessings of gain? its purpose to the young and weak is all too apparent...but what is it to the lesser savant? and does not a scholar smirk at such affair? though exists through every rational link a solid immovable certainty in which any rationale may challenge, such questions are meaningless for they are lost on the various humors of the brain. the preponderance of Christmas for the user is purely a formation birthed by the fiery passions of the heart. yet by design, the heart lies outside of the brain but within the confides of the mind. therefore, in any hope to derive and direct meaningful inquiry a bind must be created to bridge the creature of rationale with the buoyant child of passion. a unity which might justly so, provide the basis for a new topology for observing the affairs of peoples like that in which exists the induced spirit of Christmas. for the user, Christmas is a symptom of connected hearts. and for the provider its a symptom of connected capital ambitions --- but let us not speak of that aspect of Christmas for the affair of capital and markets lie squarely in the regards of rationale just as well as anything else we know and rationale stands mostly distinct from the spirit of Christmas. in accordance with object truth we must admit that the spirit of Christmas afflicts proportionately the connected populous of hearts and is entirely lost on misanthropes while somewhat on the sparsely connected heart. furthermore, we must cast out the notion that Christmas exists purely for the young and weak and observe the vast attendance of Christmas. while we ponder the spirit of Christmas in an individual by the heartful connections they may have, we find accordance with object truth. yet we must be careful not to attribute just any socialite with connectedness of heart for the two types of connections are mutually exclusive for further the number of heartful connections frolics listlessly behind the deeply entwined quality of heartful connections. it may be said that the characteristic structure of a socialite's network matches that of our circadian rhythms, pace maker cells and the perpetual crescendo of certain firefly communities but it also identifies the character of heartful connections. the connections between social groups, sleep, cells, fireflies and hearts are all scale-free and exist within the property of the power law. as such, individually and whole our network of hearts is subject to the exploits of its character. doubtless the spirit of Christmas as a whole will be disturbed while conversely the individual's Christmas spirit may. the power law demands that it take but few heartful disconnects to agitate one's lonely contempt of Christmas but in some cases it may take only one...even if the disconnect is temporary and is a function of distance during the most spirited days of Christmas. i find us in this latter predicament and for the third Christmas, I remember my contempt for the last two for it now boils lively within fiery passion between my heart and mind. i miss you. let us hope our trend breaks upon our fourth Christmas.