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By R.Andrew
November 1, 2009
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It occurred to me, as I was eating some leftover candy, that in between fall and winter there is a glorious feast under the masquerade of four main holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year. Imagine October’s Halloween as the appetizer, the warm-up to the feast. We fill ourselves with candy and other treats, but we linger at the table for a better course. November’s Thanksgiving is the salad portion of the meal. It is good, slightly filling, but we want something even yummier in our bellies. That is why December’s Christmas is our main course, the meatiest meal of all! We burst ourselves to the seam eating until our bodies say “Enough.” Yet, who can deny the final course? January’s New Year is the dessert that complements the entire feast, and fills us up until we hunger again (metaphorically speaking). So while this huge feast masquerades as innocent holidays of fun, let us not forget that from fall through winter we are eating a four-course meal, one that quietly increases our waistline.