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Dogwalk: Xmas Over Too Soon

It all begins sometime mid-summer.  The decorations and lights begin to appear in the stores and you think, oh, please!  The intensity builds for months.  Once it had been merely weeks but no more.  By the time Christmas day actually arrives it's almost anticlimactic. Yet I hate to let it go.  Yesterday was as near perfect as a lazy day can get.  Hub had kitchen duties though being a magnanimous soul, I did help with all the clean up.  In between, however, I got to laze in my chair, listen to Christmas music or watch schmaltzy movies on the tube.  No headlines, no real news, not even bad weather in these parts.  Nearly perfect. Today I'm dragging my feet.  I came out to scan the headlines but wish I hadn't.  They didn't miss a beat.  More Obamacare problems, more death and destruction and man showing his inhumanity to his fellow man.  It just never stops!/Dogwalk Musings. More here.

Question: Are you experiencing Christmas withdrawals, like Dogwalk is -- missing that brief season when focus turns from the dire news of the day? Is there any way to extend that period of goodwill to other parts of the calendar year?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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