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Good cheer and warm hearts. I always get the sense of giving and good will this time of year. I’m sure many people do. You can’t help but want to be a little more charitable. Put a few bucks into the donation pots. Feel more compelled to not let an old lady who cuts you off in her 1974 Cadillac piss you off as much. We are better people this time of year. It’s the time of love and giving… Yet still, you feel a little ashamed when your mom complains that the $20 donation to the Red Cross is not comparable to the $200 pair of designer jeans you just bought. Or how there is slight guilt when you contemplate buying your best friend the $40 or $50 gift, but don’t think twice about ordering that $60 steak. The local soup kitchen tells you that you can’t volunteer this season to serve the poor because of the overwhelming generosity of people wanting to help and there just isn’t room. You feel good about yourself because you tried to help the poor like everyone else this time of year, but then realize that from January to November, those kitchens are empty and in desperate need of support. What warm hearts. It takes generosity to think of other for a period of time, especially in the holiday season. But the true spirit lies within the ability to keep it going all year round…