The Night After Christmas: A Holiday Paradigm Revisited - Tapa dura

Does Christmas seem like a stressful, unsatisfying ritual? Why do we go through this annual exercise of decorating, shopping, wrapping, and over-spending— only to vow we’re going to do it differently next year? Was Christmas always this way? Or did our culture make it into something it wasn’t meant to be? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you may well need this book. Christmas does, indeed, offer something more. Obscured beneath the tree, hidden inside the giftwrap, buried under plastic debt lies an enduring enigma that beckons us to reconsider. Somewhere in all the clutter can be found the key to a merry Christmas. For those who take a second look, there awaits a gift that can make every day a holiday.“Delightfully riveting and insightful . . . I’m sure every person can relate. What a great reminder of what we so often forget!” —Gary Smalley

Jim Chapman, an accountant by profession, has perfected the art of writing creative poems and reciting them to captivated audiences. For years he has presented The Night After Christmas to various groups as a one-person drama to re-focus on the meaning of the holiday. Numerous requests from his listeners for copies of the text and encouragement to go public with the poem have led to publication of this book.