Zuzu's Petals

It's easy to get cynical this time of year.

If it's not the overwhelming pressure to buy shit for people who don't need it, it's the Christian zealots getting up in arms about some idiotic perceived slight.

It's hard not to get turned off by the whole thing.

But I'm not going to give in to that cynicism. I'm not going to question Christmas this year.

Instead, I'm going to remember how I felt about Christmas when I was a kid. And it's going to be excellent.

So if you'll excuse me, I have to go mainline some egg nog and wrap my albondigas in tinsel. I'm gonna cue up Vince Guaraldi and I'm going to sit down with the people I love and I'm going to remind myself that Christmas can mean whatever I want it to mean.

This year I am celebrating integrity and selflessness.

And I'm looking to find some more of that inside myself.

May your stockings be stuffed and may your bells ring loud.

Be good.