Comments on: Reclaiming Your Holidays http://www.taoofprosperity.com/reclaiming-your-holidays/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reclaiming-your-holidays create a non-striving business Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Emma http://www.taoofprosperity.com/reclaiming-your-holidays/#comment-1285 Emma Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:39:22 +0000 http://www.taoofprosperity.com/?p=182#comment-1285 @Sarah. Thanks for providing a concrete example. =) I love how you say it changed "*our* relationship to the holidays" ... not just yours, but theirs as well because you show up differently. It changes the basis for the interaction. Awesome. @Sarah. Thanks for providing a concrete example. =)

I love how you say it changed “*our* relationship to the holidays” … not just yours, but theirs as well because you show up differently. It changes the basis for the interaction. Awesome.

]]> By: Sarah Dopp http://www.taoofprosperity.com/reclaiming-your-holidays/#comment-1284 Sarah Dopp Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:16:56 +0000 http://www.taoofprosperity.com/?p=182#comment-1284 *nodding along* YES. The year I skipped going "home" for Christmas and instead hosted a hot cocoa party for queers in San Francisco was a defiant break from tradition. My family freaked. But I did it anyway, and it changed our relationship to the holidays. Now I go visit my family because I want to. And they know that when I show up, it's on my own terms. There is no more obligation. Only celebration. *nodding along* YES.

The year I skipped going “home” for Christmas and instead hosted a hot cocoa party for queers in San Francisco was a defiant break from tradition. My family freaked. But I did it anyway, and it changed our relationship to the holidays.

Now I go visit my family because I want to. And they know that when I show up, it’s on my own terms.

There is no more obligation. Only celebration.

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