12/08/2025
Not everyone's holly is super jolly this season. For some people this season holds an incredibly profound and somewhat disorienting duality. It's both magical and bright and beautiful - but also painful and hard and lonely. It can be both, and that is ok. And it's ok to honor that. This year might be someone's first Christmas since a breakup or a divorce, their first Christmas as a single parent or their 3rd - being the sole maker of all the Christmas magic - and it's so fu***ng lonely and also incredibly rewarding. It's someone's first Christmas without a parent or since that horrifyingly painful friend breakup that they thought they would never survive. It's someone's first Christmas in a new place or away from the family they wish they could be with.
I think this season always reminds me that I can be kind. I can be that smile or encouraging word that might change someone's day just a bit and make them feel less alone. And so I'm just going to keep doing that. I think we are all experiencing overwhelm at one level or another - but we don't have to do it alone.
