JRRT presents both parochial rootedness (eg. Hobbits, Ents, Elves, Drúedain) and international wandering (Gandalf, Aragorn, Bilbo) as good things. We need both: rootedness to delight in the small, the local, and the neighbourly; wandering to help us avoid narrow small-mindedness.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD, has been tracking Santa’s journey on Christmas Eve since 1955. Now millions of kids can follow real-time updates. Lester Holt shares this story.
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In Grindelwald, Switzerland, a magical Christmas place.
That is a garlic cheese fondue, there's a foot of snow on the ground, and I'm next to a fire with a blanket on my knee 🥰