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Beth's avatar

After my last few months of moving out of state and my mother dying, I am content to hunker down for a period of wintering, grieving, and processing. I will have a small tree with some twinkle lights only. I find this is quite enough after every venture out for groceries or to the pharmacy is met with non stop Christmas music and tacky decorations galore. I will welcome this period of light and peace and pray for this broken world — but celebrate? Not as likely.

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heydave56's avatar

I can't agree more. I learned through divorce and out of state moving that my family holiday themes were fiction, or at least highly malleable. This year was Thanksgiving with old friends who never had a family-free holiday before and it was wonderful. A flight to see the nieces a couple weeks before Xmas arrives with that baggage premises to be just enough holiday/ family melding for me. Tradition is pretty much a myth.

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