Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

Woodward’s line treats Christmas less as a fixed memory than as a recurring horizon of anticipation. Asked to name the “most vivid” Christmas, she answers by shifting vividness from recollection to expectation: what feels most alive is the holiday still to come. The remark suggests a temperament oriented toward hope, renewal, and the pleasures of looking forward—an implicit claim that tradition stays meaningful when it is continually reimagined rather than merely remembered. It also gently resists nostalgia: instead of idealizing a past celebration, she locates emotional intensity in the future, where possibility remains open.