Happy Holidays Are Rarely Tranquil

December 1, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week in honor of the beginning of the holiday season is Happy Holidays.

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A Happy Holidays poem about the difficulties of dealing with people on the holidays:

Happy holidays are rarely tranquil.

A social moment needs society.

People can be pains, hang on to ankles,

Play hurtful games, whoever they might be.

Yet happy holidays come every year.

Happiness does not preclude some stress.

One often finds that those one holds most dear

Lead one often dearly to regress.

In happy holidays one finds a song

Dancing in involuntary heads,

Asking one if one would sing along,

Yielding tears that sheer nostalgia sheds,

Song of love whose yearning can’t be wrong.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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Audio and Video Music: Sovereign Quarter. By Kevin MacLeod. Performed by Kevin MacLeod at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution license.

This week’s theme: Happy Holidays

11/26: All Our Friends Have Come to Play

11/27: Hail to the Season of Remembrance

11/28: Happiness Is Rarely Melody

11/29: Happy Holidays

11/30: Happiness Could Use Some Recognition

12/1: Happy Holidays Are Rarely Tranquil