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December 20, 2025 When merry means meaningful, too

Welcome to your Saturday Daily. 

Christmas is near. Lovely holiday of light. Comes “but once a year,” right? Some authoritarians have quibbled with that, and still do, using elongated versions as political boosters or as distractions from reality. We explore that today.

We also celebrate the authentic. Last week, a 3-year-old friend of the family gave me a handmade Christmas card on which she had glued a bit of dog hair in remembrance of a pet we lost this fall. The power of that act floored me. Monitor writers today offer seasonal tributes to some of what’s meaningful to them.

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