When Should the Christmas Season Start? Written by Alejandro Neufeld Growing up in the United States, the holiday season would start in October with Halloween, continue into November with Thanksgiving, and then culminate with Christmas and New Year’s Eve in December. It made sense, and each holiday flowed nicely into the other as the weather got colder. You absolutely did not set up your Christmas tree before December 1st, and no Christmas music or lights were seen or heard before December either. October was about Halloween and the onset of Autumn, but the anticipation for the holiday season started to shine through. November was all about Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and…
Nostalgic Obsessions Written by Shawn Funk There are no doubt times when we all feel the impulse to bury ourselves in the nostalgia of our past, but where does this feeling come from? Indeed, there is some hopeless feeling about the immediate present that brings about this feeling. Like there’s nothing left to be done but speak of the past, like there is nothing left to create in the present. You might call it an exhaustion of the present, a lack of vitality, or a generally hopeless feeling about the present and future prospects. My point is as we feel ever more desperate in the present, our appeals to nostalgia…
