Is Christmas really less than 2 weeks away? I have given into some of the commercialism because it seemed easier than explaining my lofty goal of not embracing that consumerist nature of what may at one time have been a magical day but now is a merely a reason to market conspicuous consumption.

And because I still very much care about impressing people who I love dearly but don't otherwise don't know how to show it, so I communicate in the native American language of things. We all understand things, the thought behind things, the effort and the thing itself. We don't understand donations (maybe more this year though) or the gift of time or anything that's not quite as tangible. But things. We all get things. So I gave some things.

But the holidays seem empty, my life seems empty without MissAlice.