What Do the Simple Folk Do?

 Taking a line from a song from the musical Camelot, in this our Christmas season, my old brain began to wonder, as did King Arthur and Queen Guinevere did about what people do to find happiness when they already have everything. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSgxA-i_amk

Here I am, a scant eight days before Christmas with no clue how things will go on my meager budget.  I didn't plan far enough ahead.  Or rather, I didn't stir up my gift recipients soon enough.  Whatever.  But I do wonder what people who already have everything get for Christmas.  What represents love to them?  Diamonds?  Yachts?  Experiences?  

Think about that for a minute.  If you had enough money to buy yourself anything you wanted, from gold toilets to private planes, what would be on your Christmas list?  Thank GOD, I am not one of those people!  I mean, what's a heaven for?  Some of the loneliest people in the world are rich.  Which is why the likes of Arthur and Guinevere are seeking answers about happiness in their song.  The greatest gifts come from the heart and not the pocketbook.  Being with family is the best we can hope for.  That won't happen this year, so I have to make lemonade out of lemons.  

I guess I'm about as simple a "folk" as anyone you will ever know.  I've never been a diva.  Don't need much and usually make do without whatever society thinks I need that I don't already have.  Still, I'm not ungrateful for gifts that come from the heart.  And that is the secret to Christmas.  It's the thought that counts.  Every single gift deserves gratitude, even if the giver didn't spend a cent.  

What do the simple folk do?  They love.  So they say...