November is a very slippery month. It has been for as long as I can remember. All of the major holidays are ahead, and Halloween has just occurred. Now Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve and Day are looming ahead. It seems as if time itself is suddenly tilted and we are collectively sliding toward the New Year with no control. This is the reason for stores, magazines, etc,to begin to overlap their decorations. There is very little time between the holiday events.
When I was young and still in elementary school, the time went very slowly between holidays. Much too slow. The waiting was maddening. I suppose that my mind was so uncluttered that this was all I had to think about. This is, of course, unimaginable now. Everyone’s mind seems to be cluttered. If our thoughts were visible as flowers, we would all probably look like large peony bushes. I wonder if the ideal mind at this point in time would be somewhere between cluttered and uncluttered. Maybe a chia plant growing from our heads.
This year even more clutter than usual has come from a very important presidential election. The commercials and advertising have been out of control for months and months, an inescapable daily input, like vines growing everywhere which threaten to strangle everyone and everything. Election Day is important, and everyone who can, should vote, but I look forward to the day after Election Day. All of the vines disappear. Television commercials are just about Thanksgiving and Christmas, and there is an exciting feeling of anticipation of holiday madness, a time when we collectively lose our sanity and drain our checkbooks and fill our credit cards. This is the yearly price of anticipation and excitement. And beware. This can be habit forming.
So, as we slide mindlessly toward the New Year, let us hold on to the one little bit of sanity left in our holiday confusion: music. Music for all of the holidays will be playing everywhere starting now. Either enjoy it or use your iPad headphones and enjoy anything you carry around with you. But listen and hang on to your sanity through your favorite vibrations and frequencies. And slide carefully into 2017 keeping control of your plastic, your sanity, and your tax deductions…!