Holidays

Are you ready? Every year I’m surprised how December has become time of busy-ness for all of us. We’re shopping. We’re baking. We’re traveling. We’re going through the expected motions, building to a holiday celebration weighted with generations of traditions. It can be exhausting and disheartening at a time we crave connection.   Most of our year end traditions involve gift giving of some sort: Christmas, Channukah, Yule, Kwanza, New Year. And each year many of us dread it,