On holiday weekends like the fourth, I’m inspired to share a truth that we often forget: loneliness is NORMAL. Yet, whether in a crowd or alone, the lonely see themselves as an error in creation, unfit for life; destined to watch scenes of intimacy through windows. To prove the flaw in this logic, I’ve gathered …
Any others out there who feel ambivalent *at best* about the holidays? The several months of heightened expectations; forced family time for some, being alone for some, and flashes of pain for all. People who throw the word “magic” around to describe the holidays exist in volume–they are also the most visible at this time …
Thanksgiving is of course about eating. But we have a more complicated mandate coming on Thursday. We sit down at the table and affirm the rules of engagement. “Let’s go around the table and all state what we’re grateful for this year”! And so it begins. I saw the expression Toxic Positivity on Twitter today …