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Sherman A1

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5. This is an important thread and I thank you for posting it.

Thu Dec 25, 2014, 06:19 AM

Dec 2014

There are a couple of very good ideas listed above this post and I hope you look into them, if not for today then for later on. I for one work in Retail and really don't like the holidays or what they have become, but that is another topic.

I went through a nasty divorce many years ago and was alone on many holidays for several years. I tried to fill the time and it sorta worked and sorta didn't. I did find one little thing that helped and I keep that tradition today.

I get up early, make my coffee just to my taste , get dressed and go outside to listen to the silence of the early morning when nothing is moving. Savor those quiet moments, enjoy being alone with what nature is around you and list off all the people and things for which you are thankful. I find it to be very cathartic.

and then I come back in because it is usually pretty cold out there.

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This is an important thread and I thank you for posting it. Sherman A1 Dec 2014 #5

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Indeed it is Sherman A1 Dec 2014 #13

I hear you Dwayne Hicks. lovemydog Dec 2014 #10

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