"This illustration from Little House on the Prairie shows all it took to make Christmas perfect for Laura and Mary: two heart-shaped cakes, two tin cups, two peppermint sticks and two pennies — one for each girl." Garth Williams, Little House on the Prairie, from group of four, 1953: Christmas Stockings/Copyright Garth Williams 1953; renewed 1981/Image courtesy Heritage Auctions via NYT
"That which is recorded on the heart is, alas, not Instagrammable."
—Liesl Schillinger, "In Praise of the Good Enough Holiday"