Cheers to the December Bereaved

December again…

The holiday season. If it puts stars in your eyes anticipating the warmth, the cheer, the reunions around a well-appointed table, even the hope of unwrapping that gift you really want, please take a moment to appreciate how lucky and/or blessed life can be at the end of the year, a solid celebration bringing hope for even better things in the years to come.

But raise a glass for those who may have suffered a great trauma or a great loss smack-dab in the middle of a holiday season in their history. There is no denying that there is a significant number of our friends and acquaintances for whom the tinsel and lights bring only grief, sometimes in a raging rush for having been avoided throughout the large part of the year.