This is silly, I know.

This past Christmas was my first in years when I couldn't go out with hampers for street folk.

Too much debt.

And yet, the person who left us posted about doing *such* good deeds at Xmas.

And I'll never know how much truth there was in that. Did this person help people closer to home? Or was their world-grief after donating a lie?

At the time, I was comforted by the thought that someone else was helping even when I couldn't.

That comfort feels very, very bitter now.