It’s now clear that Christmas this year will be minimal but good enough. For a million differing and tiny reasons (money being only one) our family will be going through the bare minimum of motions to celebrate capitalism this winter.
We are feeling very much more relaxed and joyous not succumbing to the seasonal mania that normally infects us like unwitting victims in some sparkly zombie movie.
For the first time in what seems like forever we have no decorations, no tree, no cards and presents (yet). Once the initial twinge of guilt subsides I relax and breathe a sigh of relief and relax into the simplicity of the deep and quiet company of friends and family.