Cozy lights + art thefts + pregnancy

May I recommend

Cozy lights

Oh, you’re recommending Christmas lights at Christmas time. How really flipping original, Amy. Aren’t you innovative? Aren’t you cutting edge? Aren’t you cool?

You like them because they make you nostalgic, and because they are pretty and because when you walk into a dark room and turn them on, for one brief moment you feel safe and warm and secure? Isn’t that UNIQUE and INTERESTING.

Wait, do you think it sucks that it gets dark so early now but the lights in the neighbourhood are the one literal bright spot in a bleak, unforgiving universe? Wow, no one has every had that thought before. Your Pulitzer is in the mail.

In defending this corny and trite recommendation — even in this weird, aggressive, sarcastic way — are you simply reinforcing the Hallmark Movie nonsense that at Christmas time we remember the simple things and reconnect with what REALLY MATTERS when in reality the whole season has been co-opted by environmentally devastating, exploitative capital…