When I run, I wear a baseball cap. And when the wind is up during a run, I have to keep my head down to keep my cap from flying off my head.
With the holiday season, I feel like I'm running into a headwind. Time to keep my head down and push my way through.
I've never been a big fan of the retail aspect of the holiday season.
These days it feels like it starts soon after Labor Day.
That's because Halloween has emerged as a Big Retail Event.
So now you have Halloween segueing into Thanksgiving, which blurs with Christmas, then ends, finally, with New Year's.
Black Friday isn't the Friday after Thanksgiving. It's every Friday at the malls.
This heightened frenzy on the retail end just seems to raise the overall holiday anxieties. A high tide raises all boats, right?
Certainly, there are parts of the holidays that I enjoy, once I've gotten my head into it.
I like being able to see family, especially my children. I like the spiritual moments when they come. Every year I wait for the Christmas Moment of spiritual fulfillment. And every year one comes along, now matter how cranky I might get during the process.
I'm turning the corner into the stiffening wind. I have my head down.
I don't want to lose my hat.
For that matter, I don't want to lose my head.
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