Celebratory pre Festivus post

Prepare for the airing of the grievances

In four short days we will be celebrating my favorite holiday. Festivus. Yes it stared on a Seinfeld episode. Considering how much I love Jerry, it’s only natural that I’m a convert.

Festivus is grand. It has greatest holiday catch phrase of all time - Festivus for the rest of us! Wow! That sounds so much better than Eid Mubarak, Merry Christmas, L’shanna tova, Happy Holidays and whatever other greetings that get made at the United Nations on major cultural holidays.

The most important part of Festivus, takes place after Festivus dinner - the airing of the grievances. We all could spend a bit of time both airing grievances and providing a container for their impacts.

At the end of the day, my work has been a lot uglier since early in 2020.

On a pre verbal level people are a lot more twitchy.

A lot of people seem to have a lot more resentment and a desperation for certainty.

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