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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”

  1. Hey. I recognize that ginger bread cookie! I used to love the holidays, when my kids were young, and before I started working at TJs (I could write a bloody book about holidays at TJs). My idea now is that we celebrate the holidays in rotation, like the Olympics (and Presidential elections), one every four years. The years rip by so fast, nobody would even notice. Ditto that for all televised award shows. Too much hype and hysteria. It’s utterly exhausting. 🙂

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    2. Would love to hear more about holidays at TJ’s! or about anything else, for that matter – if you’re interested, type ‘call for writers’ into search bar in column to the right of this

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  2. You said what I have been thinking for quite some time. I thought I was the only one. Everyone seems to feel obligated to get into it. Holidays put so much pressure on people, and it is so commercialized. It’s not like it used to be. It meant more, maybe I am being nostalgic..

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      1. Those were carefree days, when we didn’t have to face the realities of life and all the responsibilities that go with it. It all goes by so FAST.

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  3. Great post Daal. You express this so succinctly and yet you say so much: what a skill! I love all the holidays and I do think it’s ok not to get involved if you don’t want to or feel able to. Not everyone feels jolly at Christmas (as commercialism expects us to) and wants to spend money they might not have in order to be seen as conforming and not a kill-joy. Equally we all don’t have a network of friends or close family that we want to or can spend time with. So much emphasis is placed on celebration and being happy at these times with little attention paid to the fact that there are many who are unable to join in because of their circumstances. And why indeed do we have to join in if we choose not to? There is no law that says we have to – at least there wasn’t the last time I checked! 🙂

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