Allen Brokken 
Storyteller, Author, Technology Strategist.

Does your family have Christmas traditions? Do you all get together to do something year over year “because it's Christmas”, that when you think about it, isn't really Christmas? I'm not sure you can get much farther from an iron age manger in Israel than this photo unless you actually go to a galaxy far far away. This was taken a week ago at the local Hobby Lobby as we were shopping for ornaments. Every year we all get one ornament that we feel represents the past year to us