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It’s OK 2 Say Nope 2 Holidays + Podcast: Dog Days + L. Brummet’s Leeks

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Wish the holidays would just go away? It’s okay to tell them to go away.

Holidays can be nice — and terrible! Family can bring us to our knees — both to swoon and to cringe. Romance can make our hearts flutter or seize.

From Halloween to New Year’s, at least here in the United States, we’re inundated 24/7 with messages of how this is the time for families and lovers. We’re instructed to either kiss, or to kiss and make up.

fullsizerender-5Sometimes none of that is possible or isn’t in our best interest.

Traditional or sacred, I invite you to join me in acknowledging that ignoring any special day is perfectly acceptable. Never, sometimes, always; we can give any number of them a rest, whenever we please.

What matters is that we do everything to get through them as best we can — whatever it takes to mark time, to survive, to thrive through and into gentle holiday-free January.

Do you ever prefer to ignore holidays?

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Happiness Between Tails speaks to and from the heart. It connects lovers — of pets, authors, books — and of my still-unreleased novels, “Flamenco + the Sitting Cat” and “Tango + the Sitting Cat.” The stories are my love letters to all who fear they're too odd, too damaged, too old, too whatever to find happiness. ContactdaAL@gmail.com • BuyMeACoffee.com/SupportHBT

74 thoughts on “It’s OK 2 Say Nope 2 Holidays + Podcast: Dog Days + L. Brummet’s Leeks”

  2. I like the twinkly lights, the music, the classic movies and that my anti-commercialism husband is not into store bought gifts. But I do not like the build up to frenzy which makes me glad it’s over so I can get back to a comforable routine. Saying no can be a very good thing.

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  3. And you know, the older I get the more important it is for me to remember that! Though I constantly argue with my sister the “traditionalist” about it! LOL I think as we age we realize we just don’t need all the trappings any more to make things meaningful to us. Appreciate you post. 😀

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  4. The interesting thing is that sometimes you start the holiday season with high hopes only to find out at the most inappropriate time that it is going down the drain. I guess some might call it a character builder, but I just view it as a total bust. Oh well, there’s always next year – maybe. 🙂

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