Letting Go of Nostalgia

I think I’m done with nostalgia.

It was the holiday season that made me realize it. I wanted to do something special for Christmas, but for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out what that should be.

From the time I was ten until I was seventeen, my family and I were very active in our local Episcopal Church. Christmas consisted of observing Advent for the month before the holiday, midnight services on Christmas Eve, and sometimes even church again on Christmas morning.

Yes, we did presents and a...