Winnipeg Free Press
Opinion AN optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. Walter Winchell, broadcast journalist.
With the holiday season threatening to be a downer, even the optimists among us are challenged to find a silver lining in the pandemic cloud.
Humour may help. Perhaps the Manitoba government’s list of what is essential and non-essential should specify that humour is essential at such a bleak time.
Let’s start with the children: they’re not expecting gifts from Santa this year because they know households are restricted to immediate family and, being smarty-pants, the kids realize Santa is a responsible fellow who would never repeatedly come down the chimneys of houses and spread COVID-19.