Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

Rundel frames Christmas less as a fixed set of rituals than as an enveloping atmosphere—“a magic blanket,” “like a fragrance”—suggesting an experience that is felt rather than fully articulated. The emphasis on intangibility and “nostalgia” links the holiday to memory and emotional continuity, where sensory impressions trigger recollection. By pairing “feasting” with “prayer,” she acknowledges both secular and religious observances, yet insists on a unifying core: remembrance. The closing claim—thinking of “everything we have ever loved”—casts Christmas as an annual reckoning with attachment and loss, a time when personal history and affection become newly present.