26 | December | 2023 | MY ENDURING BONES

Over the Christmas Holidays I got a little lost.

I tried to make merry, I tried to ho-ho-ho, I desperately tried to jingle all the way.

What I learned was that had I approached Christmas the way I go about celebrating Halloween I would have enjoyed the season a lot more.

I don’t mean that I should have put up a black Christmas tree and festooned it with bones, little severed body parts and Universal Monster ornaments, I mean that I should have gone into the winter holiday season with a touch of ice in my veins- it would have made the season meaningful and I wouldn’t have felt like the bastard child showing up uninvited to a family reunion where everyone wears matching t-shirts and they play games like capture the flag and run Egg and Spoon races.

I have a year to find the spirit- I just hope it wants to be found by someone like me.

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