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Holidays Are Fun But Can Be Confusing …
November 23, 2021
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The holidays are always a feel-good time of the year for the listening audiences and air personalities. Radio stations get into the spirit with holiday concerts, food and toy collections, themed-related contests, Christmas music, special programming, and kicking back.
Double Check ...
There might still be some needs that were not on the radar when the holiday planning was done months ago. This is just a reminder for everyone to check among the staff to make sure your station is not missing any opportunities to make the holidays brighter for others.Do You Remember …
What is it about holidays that makes us nostalgic? Every person I've talked with can remember their earliest Thanksgivings and how it leads up to Christmas. Like a friend recently shared, she just knew lots of people would come over and she and her family would eat food that they didn't eat at any other time of the year. My Thanksgiving and holiday memories were all tied at the hip. Throw in a birthday and confusion doesn't begin to explain what I dealt with as a four-year-old.Daylight & Darkness ...
At that young age the turkey thing called Thanksgiving was a leadup to what I was told was my birthday. At that age, none of us have a concept of time, other than daylight and darkness. I was told my birthday was on December 22nd. That had no meaning other than, "okay, and that means?" All I knew was that this food thing called a turkey seemed to make the taller beings in my immediate world happy.It Was Too Much …
The holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Santa Claus, Jesus, and Rudolph "The Red Nose" Reindeer were too much for my little brain. The first holiday in my conscious awareness, I only knew that one minute we were eating turkey and within the blink of an eye, the birthday I was promised had arrived. I didn't quite understand how it all happened so fast, but I wasn't going to say no to the sweet cold lumpy stuff they called ice cream.The Tree ...
While enjoying my birthday, it was hard not to notice, a tall green thing in another room and it had sparkly twinkling stuff. I heard them call it a Christmas tree. More things to try and learn just kept coming at me. I was trying to figure out if Jesus came with Santa on a sleigh with a turkey. Having a birthday so close to Christmas was sensory overload for a 4-year-old. I wondered if everyone’s birthday was on Christmas day.I Finally Got It ...
By the time I was six, I was an old pro at the holidays. I stopped associating Thanksgiving and turkey with my birthday and Christmas. My next mind boggle was why the basement - I was not allowed to go downstairs by myself - but snuck down to anyway, had the bicycle I had asked Santa for?Indigestion Is Not Your Friend ...
Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season. I hope you're enjoying yours and try not to eat too much. -
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