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On the way home tonight, I had to stop to pick up a few greeting cards for various events coming up. I suppose I wasn’t entirely shocked to hear the Christmas music playing in the shop. The holiday season seems to be in full tilt. On TV, the ads are already featuring family scenes involving red bows and copious amounts of snow.

Now, it’s not like this really comes as a surprise. The same things happen at the same time every year, holiday-wise. But you’d think there was a way to ease into it, perhaps?

My mother used to start playing Christmas music in the house and in the car on October 1. Too early, but you couldn’t fault her for having such passion for an entire three month block of the calendar.

At any rate – I gather that the trees will start plopping up on New York City street corners in another week or two. Hard to believe autumn came and went in the course of a day and a half (the leaves are still on the trees here, aren’t they?).

’tis the season.