VISITvortex Winter Holiday 2014-15

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HOLIDAY

The VISITvortex Guide to

Holiday Fun by Anne Pyburn-Craig

Delightful, right? So how is it that many people experience the holidays as one big onslaught of stress and expense? We’ve been conditioned into feeling that there is a “Right Way to Do the Holidays.” Well, there is. The right way is the way that makes you happy. Even the most rugged individualist may wish to partake of some of the season’s jollies, so here’s our guide to doing that without getting trampled in commercialism’s maw.

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There’s something very primal about celebrating in December. With winter coming on, humans have known for centuries that it’s time to light the candles, blaze the bonfires, feast, and laugh together as the shank end of the year shades into the new one’s beginning. Shortly, the longer days will be noticeable, as the sun makes its way back.

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