Madam, - I quite agree with Angela Macnamara's sentiments about Christmas wish-lists (December 12th).
It saddens and worries me to observe how families are (not) coping nowadays, and puts me in mind of the poem Leisure by W.H. Davies: "What is this life, if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare ? " - Yours, etc,
JEANNE LEAHY, Cobh, Co Cork.
