We believe in Santa Claus. Who doesn’t!? Stop believing in Santa and you are giving up on magic and possibility, on kindness and generosity, on the power of giving.
Perhaps there is a need, at varied points in life, to define Santa differently, more broadly. We start with the fellow in the suit, all the flying about and we then grow into the gift of Santa, the power of the idea of Santa.
And so, we here at the paper shift ourselves, hopefully just temporarily, onto the naughty list for our front-page piece of a couple of weeks ago where we wrote about how local families evolve with Santa. It was a good story about good local families. Just maybe, in our villages of early readers, the front-page placement should have been avoided. But back here, tucked on the editorial page, beneath our 39th take on Lake and Forest, we can more appropriately make the case for a lifelong belief in Santa Claus.