This year was terrible, but I'm glad at least now we can all admit we like pop music. I don't know anyone who had a good year in 2018; I wouldn't trust anyone who said they did. I don't know anyone who isn't exhausted, and I wouldn't trust anyone who wasn't. It has been hard to dig gratitude out of this impossible, dull, filler-space of a year. Too often gratitude is just the ability to shut the door against the storm, and isn't that repeated act, for so long over and over, exactly why this year feels so dragging, so dull, so peculiarly un-blessed? For Thanksgiving I cooked some unnecessarily elaborate and indulgent things and filled my house with food and warmth and people I loved, and it was good, and it didn't make anybody less sad, which is also sort like the one good thing that happened this year, which is pop music.
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This year was terrible, but I'm glad at least now we can all admit we like pop music. I don't know anyone who had a good year in 2018; I wouldn't trust anyone who said they did. I don't know anyone who isn't exhausted, and I wouldn't trust anyone who wasn't. It has been hard to dig gratitude out of this impossible, dull, filler-space of a year. Too often gratitude is just the ability to shut the door against the storm, and isn't that repeated act, for so long over and over, exactly why this year feels so dragging, so dull, so peculiarly un-blessed? For Thanksgiving I cooked some unnecessarily elaborate and indulgent things and filled my house with food and warmth and people I loved, and it was good, and it didn't make anybody less sad, which is also sort like the one good thing that happened this year, which is pop music.