Does Your Nose Get In The Way, Too? by Arlene Erlbach

It's not always straightforward or easy to make the connection. The holidays are the one time of year when we are expected and encouraged to connect. The world of work slows, schools take time off, and everything in general seems to make a nod toward spending some time with family. The holidays are a natural time for generations to connect.

If we don't have happy memories from holidays past, then it becomes all the more important to create special moments now that will become memories in the future. We want to relive those moments from the past when we felt safe, secure, happy, and connected (or at least the times we remember that way - even if they didn't actually happen exactly as we remember them). Our children need memories and traditions to grow into their future, and we need our memories and traditions to step back into the comfort of the past for a moment. Memories can give us comfort, direction, inspiration, and hope. They help us make sense of our life and find meaning in it. Memories make up the story of our life that exists in our mind. A holiday is also a time when you engage in familiar activities - activities that have been repeated over the years and through the generations, and which you hope will continue to be repeated in future years and by new generations.įor individuals, the holidays are very much about memories and traditions formed in childhood.

Think about it: what would a holiday be without the memories and traditions that separate it from the blur of every other day of the year? A holiday is a time when you remember - holidays past, the year past, those you have known, and even who you once were. In addition to the film and novelization, there were two made-for-TV sequels and a short-lived TV series that picked up where the movies left off.Memories, traditions, and holidays go together. The film and novelization are fictionalized versions of this girl’s life: The novelization by Norma Klein (<- LOVE HER!) is better than a hundred-thousand Lurlene McDaniel novels, especially if you’re partial to hippies, teen moms, would-be amputees, and syrupy poems written from a premature deathbed. I am willing to bet you’ve never heard of this film, but according to my mother and others like her, it was once seminal for any earth-loving teen who ever loved John Denver and longed for an aestheticized death. It’s not easy most of the time, but there is a real beauty in knowing that your end is going to catch up with you sooner than you expected and you have to get all your loving and laughing and crying in as soon as you can!” Dying is beautiful, even the first time around at the ripe old age of 20. “Boy, I want them to play Country Roads at my funeral. Holy mackerel, you can now watch the entire 1973 made-for-tv movie Sunshine in 13 ten-minute increments on Youtube! So pumped!

Does Your Nose Get In The Way, Too? by Arlene Erlbach