Sandra Bullock should be depicted as an angel on her Christmas cards because she often plays the role of one – on and off the screen.

Perhaps Sandra Bullock should have someone design special celebrity Christmas cards with her picture on it…maybe one depicting her with angel’s wings to credit her for her acts of humanitarianism. On the day after Christmas in 2004, when an earthquake struck off the northwest coast of Sumatra, the tsunami that resulted devastated India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. That fateful December 26th left 225,000 dead, tens of thousands injured, and 10 million homeless. Sandra responded by donating one million dollars to the American Red Cross. This was the second time she contributed that amount of money to that particular charitable organization.

Christmas also seems to have played a role in Sandra Bullock’s career and personal life. In the movie While You Were Sleeping, which is set during the holiday season, she plays a fare collector for Chicago’s elevated railway. The high point of her work day is selling a token to a commuter whom she has a secret crush on. While working on Christmas day she witnesses her secret love being mugged on the platform and thrown onto the tracks. She springs into action, saving him from imminent death by an oncoming train and then accompanies the now comatose imaginary boyfriend to the hospital. There she is overheard fantasizing aloud, “I was going to marry him,” by a nurse on duty who informs the doctor, a policeman as well as a member of the man’s family. From that point on the film begins to take shape. But you’ll have to see the movie to find out how everything ends up.

Did you know that Sandra Bullock is a plane crash survivor? Just prior to Christmas in 2000, Sandra was a passenger on a chartered jet that crashed at Jackson Hole Airport in Wyoming. The plane missed the runway on approach; hit a snow bank instead and the resulting damage included both the nose gear and nose cone being ripped off, the right wing being partially separated from the plane’s body, and the left wing being bent back. Obviously she survived and we fans are grateful for that.

I wonder if Sandra Bullock is even aware of how the Christmas season has affected certain aspects in her life. When she sends or receives Christmas cards each year is she mindful of these particular occurrences? Whether or not, she will always be thought of as a Christmas angel to me…one who deserves a Christmas card designed especially for her!