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Post-Show: Walking Contradiction

The holiday blues, an orthodoxy of one, and the necessity of blackness
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I’m one of those people who gets a little down during the holidays. Maybe it’s the end of the year marking the passage of time, or maybe it’s the short days and lack of sunlight. I often find myself in a state of existential despair in the stretch from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, while others around me are joyful. But it’s a seasonal thing, and seasons change.

Perhaps I’m feeling hemmed in.

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