A New Year's Wish

The tradition had started many years ago with just two of us on our street leaving gifts on each other's doorsteps in the last weeks of the year. Now, we had a doorstep y where neighbors travelled from house to house like santa claus and left a small token. Lots of my neighbors were terrific bakers, and i got tins of cookies and celiphane wrapped cranberry loaves that kept my after noon tea company for as long as i could make them last. One neighbor gave hand made ornaments made of paper or hard baked gingerbread or dried orange slices. A gift i always looked forward to was a simple brown paper sack tied with a red ribbon that held