To all our Democratic Friends,

Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially acceptable, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2009, but with the respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country, nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishees.

To our Republican friends:

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! America Rocks!

Royce, Jen, Duncan, Brynne, Maren and unnamed 9 month old uterus dweller.