Christmas is almost here. Yay!!!! Let the shopping panic mania begin. LOL…ahem….*cough* I mean. Yay!!! Christmas. We humans are creatures of habit and we are social. This means that we will tend to do what we have always done and what everyone else is doing or what other people that we value tell us we…
DetailsHappy Solstice everyone! Here’s a fun picture tour of the way Solstice has been celebrated throughout history. Enjoy!
DetailsPeople will do a lot of crazy things in order to not confront what they fear. They will cart around elephants, plant them in the middle of the room, then steadfastly ignore them. Heaven help us if multiple people bring elephants because they become exponentially difficult for everyone else to ignore when they begin rough…
DetailsIt’s common to see the Holidays as the big 3: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. There are, of course, others in and around that time including Hanukkah and Kwanza and New Years which keeps us all on our toes and reminds us that the holidays are about more than merchandising. Of course, I look at things a…
Details“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on.…
DetailsIn all the hullabaloo that is the Christmas season it’s easy to forget the actual season going on. This is the last week of fall, even if it already feels like winter in many places and spring is just coming on in others. In the Northern Hemisphere the trees have shed their leaves, the evergreens…
DetailsSometimes we make things waaaaaayyy too hard when they don’t need to be. We set expectations for ourselves that are out of proportion or get all perfectionist when life is anything but. So then we have to work twice as hard to get over our fear our anxiety just to do the thing or achieve…
DetailsChristmas is an amazing time for symbols. It’s a symbol factory! Better than dream time because the symbols aren’t something running around in our head at night, but things which everyone can see and interact with. I’ve thought about creating a called “Claim that Christmas Symbol” but it seems that people are already playing it…
DetailsPart of the joy of the Christmas season is deciding what type of Christmas to have. Are we staying home this year, going to visit relatives we haven’t seen for a while, going to your mom’s or mine or both? Some people make a circuit because there are multiple family gatherings on both sides and…
DetailsDon’t give what you want, give what they want. I know, it seems obvious and really simple, but for some it’s a mystery, which is why Christmas, birthdays, and Valentine’s Day are fraught when it comes to the gifts. How do people get it so wrong so very often? Well, a couple of things influence…
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