Happy Chrunch!

Chrunch?
You are right: that word doesn’t exist — at least not officially — but it makes perfect sense.
It’s Christmas in many parts of the world, and it’s also time for brunch.
Put them together, just for one special day — December 25 — and there you have it: Chrunch, the delicious fusion of Christmas and Brunch.

The glittering, glowing season of Christmas rarely leaves anyone cold.
Its warmth and the fairytale charm of an ancient story are simply irresistible to both the eyes and the stomach.
Faced with this splendour, not only Christians but also Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Mennonites, and even atheists find themselves disarmed.
This world is far too tempting to pass by in sober silence.

Christmas 2025 shines brighter than in most years past.
No, it’s not because of more lights, more glitter, or more candles on the tree.
It’s the dark, deep-black backdrop that makes the sparkle explode into ecstasy.
Perhaps we’re all, in one way or another, quietly wrestling with the darkness — the kind that makes us uncertain about the future.
And yet, the future never actually shows itself until it becomes the present.
Our “vision of the future” is nothing more than our own colourful imagination.
Knowledge has little to do with it.

Before we drift too far into the dark, a few cracks begin to appear —
and as the great, melancholic Canadian Leonard Cohen reminded us:
“There is a crack in everything — that’s how the light gets in.”

Those small cracks of hope have a charming habit of widening over time, letting in more and more light.

So, with this Leonardian Law in mind, I wish everyone on this extraordinary and one-of-a-kind planet a heartfelt:

Merry Christmas.