Reckoning with the merry-go-round
Hello friends,
Are you experiencing post-holiday glow? Are you gleefully bidding goodbye to the social scroll of Christmas traditions? We're not allowed to get too comfy, though. The FOMO-inducing holiday in a party hat is getting ready to bat at the end of this week. I've had luck avoiding him by pretending I'm asleep. Works every year.
Can you avoid the timestamp, though?
For those of us who cobble together cultural traditions as we go, the holidays act as a timestamp. The merry-go-round rounds the bend, forcing us to face what changed this year.