There’s all kinds of emotional tripe that can boiled, salted, fried, poached, braised and grilled at this time of the year. Most is as insincere as the greeting you get at any retail outlet. Essentially “the holidays” is humans knee-jerking to what we are told Christmas should be like, as defined by greeting card companies, advertisers and a translucent egg tempera wash of pale blue religiosity with twinkly elves, lights, bows, reindeer and garlanded shrubbery.
Ignore it all and embrace the humbug. This season is not about presents and turkey. It is about rebirth. Change. A chance to start over. To undo some of the bad things we’ve all done in the year.
This holiday season is an oppourtunity to remind ourselves that living meaningfully, with purpose and generosity of spirit is the true story of the holiday. It is a chance to try again to bring a moments’ grace to everyone. Not just family or friends, but to those we don’t know and will never know. To give what we wish we were to others, in the hope that they will respond in kind, perhaps to another stranger, combining our individual acts of kindness to all of us who live on this little blue planet.
That is our wish to you. That you live meaningfully, with purpose and generosity of spirit.
Merry Christmas.
RoadDave 
Believe it or not, I’ve started already, as a therapist of all things. Imagine, people coming to ME to restore their sanity! 😀 😯
To you and yours, including that rapscallion Mason, the most joyous and merriest of Christmases! May all the blessings that this season brings be yours to enjoy.