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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. I pretty much ignore the “holiday season” because things like Christmas are simply not meaningful to me. Very little about it is pleasant, anyway. Contrary to the sentiments relentlessly pushed on us, most people seem to feel stressed-out and under pressure. It’s cold and dark, the stores are all playing crappy versions of treacly songs, and the pressure to spend money is relentless. There’s always a certain relief when it’s over.

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  4. Today is January 1, which means the holiday season is over. I have no problem with anyone who wants to celebrate the various events, but for me the holidays are the most overdone time of the year.

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  5. Thank you for sharing podcast and your thoughts!!.. it is your day and time so the time and day is whatever you wish for it to be.. whether it is a holiday or just another day… Happy New Year and hope it is a mostest wonderfulest day and year ever filled with love and happiness and life is all that you wish for it to be… 🙂

    Until we meet again..
    May love and laughter light your days,
    and warm your heart and home.
    May good and faithful friends be yours,
    wherever you may roam.
    May peace and plenty bless your world
    with joy that long endures.
    May all life’s passing seasons
    bring the best to you and yours!
    (Irish Saying)

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