Embrace Your Love-Hate Relationship With the Holidays

Christmas doesn’t need to always be merry and bright

Joel
An Injustice!
Published in
6 min readDec 9, 2021

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AI-generated Christmas art from wombo.art

In some ways, the most quintessentially Christmas thing is a Christmas tree at a shopping mall. It’s there, along with the music at stores and all the decorations that pop up everywhere, to promote the rampant commercialism of the season. Yet, if it’s not there, something feels off, and…

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