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Are “ After Christmas” Blues Getting Worse?
Don’t let the holly daze do a snow job on your psyche
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, ripples, and currents by Christyl Rivers
Cyclone bombs, sugar bombs, and garbage bombs
Christmas presents us with tons of expectation, anticipation, and all of the dopamine any addict would murder for.
We murder the planet for it.
We eat too much fat and sugar, buy too much junk, and make too much garbage. Then we fall into a low-key mood that often is accompanied by depression, and even grief.
The trouble with extreme and exploitative capitalism and consumption, of course, is that it is short-lived for the human reward centers. Our pleasure is retained in our nostalgic memory, but our disappointment gets filtered out to some degree.
That is, you will be just as hopeful and excited next year. But, new feature has entered the situation.
Storms of your grandchildren
Storms don’t just happen in real life, they happen in the brain.
Storm Eliot brought a cyclone bomb, a relatively new type of weather and snow disaster that we have to add to our lexicon…