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Presents or presence?

By Staff Reports | December 14, 2011

baby in a snowsuit on a sled

Does anyone else find Thanksgiving and Christmas a bit of a contradiction? We spend a couple of days focused on Thanksgiving; usually setting up the menu, grocery shopping, or juggling travel plans for a day spent with our families. What started as a day for family and gratitude, is often replaced with family watching football on TV, mapping Black Friday’s shopping spree, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Buy Local, Christmas, consumerism, materialism, Thanksgiving, Transition US

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