Boxing Day

Today is Boxing Day, a perfect name for the day after Christmas. Boxing Day is an official bank and public holiday in the UK, Canada, New Zealand and many European countries. Exactly how it got its name is in some dispute: some say it was because special offering boxes for donations for the poor and those in service positions were put outside of churches in celebration of St. Stephen's Day; others say the name comes from the boxes of money, food, &/or clothes that the gentry gave to their servants for the holiday; and others believe it came about because the servants would pack meal boxes of cold cuts, cheeses and other tasty items for their employers to eat while the servants had their day off. Nowadays, many people believe that the American way of boxing up their unwanted, wrong size, ugly, "what were they thinking?" gifts back to the store hoping to find something that suits them is the true meaning of Boxing Day.

However Boxing Day got its name, it is how I feel not only today, but how my life will be. I will forever be boxing, no, not putting things in boxes or taking a day off. I will be boxing: fighting, sparring with the enemy of cancer and sickness. I will be dancing around a ring, feigning to the left and right, taking jabs and giving rock hard solid punches. I will be fighting for a richness of health, happiness, and vitality. And not just on Decemeber 26.