What's Joy to the World without the J? Oy, which is Yiddish for woe, headache or pain in the patootee, which is what Christmas is to a lot of people.
But not to me. For whether more Oy-ful than Joyful depends on whether you're an insider to the whole Christmas scene or not. And I'm not, and it's from the perspective of a non-Christmas-y person that I experience all the holiday's joy and none of the oy.
Despite having no religious connection to Christmas, I love the holiday because it's just so doggone pretty and smells so yummy, and its music is so beautiful.
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