December holds a number of holidays and observances each year. This year, people around the world will celebrate one or more of the following:
- Bodhi Day (December 8)
- Yule/Winter Solstice (Beginning December 21)
- Festivus (December 23)
- Hanukkah (Beginning December 25)
- Christmas (December 25)
- Kwanzaa (Beginning December 26)
You might celebrate one, or some, or none of these. No matter what you celebrate, or don’t, there’s something to glean from every single one.
Merriam-Webster says that to glean is to gather the leftover grain or other produce left by the reapers or pickers. So you don’t have to be the main consumer of the holiday/observance to get something meaningful from it. I’ll be sharing the things I glean from each of these.
In the meantime, there’s some writing inspiration here. Get in the practice of curiously gleaning. When you are faced with something and your initial reaction is, “This isn’t for me,” take a beat. Maybe it isn’t for you. Maybe you weren’t the central focus in the development. NEWSFLASH: you weren’t the central focus in the development of virtually anything. You make the choice to reap something from that developed thing.
So.
How about trying to change the way you come to a development? Perhaps, just every once in a while, come to it with curiosity rather than self-imposed isolation.
Be curious. Glean all you can.
Then write about it. Write about it all. What have you got to lose?
Sparks 