[MD] Unseen reality

[Platt Holden]

Hi All,

Usually on Christmas eve I send to my fellow MOQites a copy of "Yes 
Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." Since all of you are no doubt familiar 
with the full version I decided this year simply to offer a snippet of the 
most relevant part as a reminder that no matter how much we think we know 
there's a lot we don't, prompting us to be humbly admit to our limitations. 
Here's the excerpt:

"The most real things in the world are those  that neither children nor men 
can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on  the lawn? Of course not, but 
that's no proof that they are not there.  Nobody can conceive or imagine 
all the wonders there are unseen and  unseeable in the world. You tear 
apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but  there is 
a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor  even the 
united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could  tear apart. 
Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain  and view 
and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real?  Ah, 
Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding."

But, of course he too could be wrong. Thus, to each his own beliefs, and a 
rededication to the principle of freedom to choose one's belief system so 
long as one's choice does not impinge on another's freedom to do likewise. 

Merry Christmas to all, 
Platt