The question seems to come up every year. “Is there a Santa Claus, a really real Santa Claus?” The answer, of course, is yes, but not everyone has been lucky enough to actually see him in person, in the flesh. The only recorded sighting was reported in a poem many years ago entitled “’T’was the night before Christmas”. It described in detail the arrival of a “right jolly old elf who filled all the stockings” and then flew away in a sleigh drawn by tiny reindeer. That one eyewitness account is enough to convince me. And all the Santa’s helpers in their white beards and red suits at shopping malls and Salvation Army bellringers serve to remind us that, at this golden kindly time of year, his spirit is everywhere… If we want it to be.