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Christmas shopping is a tinsel covered nightmare.
The endless spots on TV would have you believe it’s just a light hearted, fun filled chance to bathe the ones you love in the warmth you’ve been building up all year. Bullshit. Christmas shopping is a pop quiz, a trick question, a trap designed to reveal whether you really know another person or not. The pressure is enormous, the stakes sky high.
Here’s how Christmas shopping went for us this year.
There was a time, when I first heard Sufjan Stevens’ work – the song “Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)” – that I erroneously though this was the artist who previously went by “Cat.”
The embarrassment has never gone away.
Stevens’ “Futile Devices,” off of his latest album The Age of Adz, has more in common with his albums Illinoise and Seven Swans than Enjoy Your Rabbit and as far as I’m concerned, that’s definitely a plus.
40ish some years ago, many of our parents immigrated from Asia to the United States for a shot at a better life and greater opportunities for themselves and their kids. I think about my mom and dad and how scary it must have been to pack up what little belongings they had and move away from everything they loved and found familiar to the other side of the Earth. The language was totally different as was the food, the streets, the people, the sights, and the sounds. Talk about a scarier than hell life change. They had very little to no money but they ended up making it work. I wonder if I possess the guts and/or the balls to do something similar today…
