Like me, my friend Lee is raising Jewish children in a blended-faith household. And when she was asked by her two sons what she wanted for Christmas last December, she said “world peace.” (Cute. Don’t you love it when moms are cagey like that? My own mother always used to ask for “a kind word.”)

Anyway, this time, those sweet boys took Lee up on it–guess what she received Christmas morning? A Tibetan chant CD, silver prayer bracelet, and other religious items from TibetanSpirit.com. I love it.

It’s a whole new world, friends, with war and terrorism at one extreme, and the cross-pollinization of the world’s wisdom traditions on the other. It will take more Christmas gifts like these to make a difference. But I thought that her kids demonstrated a lot of pluck and sweetness.