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            <h2>Before And After: Christmas Shopping While Black</h2>
            <div><h3>You’re in that joyful mood of the festive season, but a few microaggressions later, you're emotionally drained</h3></div>
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            <h2>Buddhist and Stoic Lessons on Giving, Connecting, and Happiness (Even Beyond the Holidays)</h2>
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            <h2>Has Christmas Cheer Evolved Into Christmas Greed?</h2>
            <div><h3>I ask the questions and I also answer them. It’s like talking to yourself, but in writing.</h3></div>
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            <h2>Christmas Songs And A Tortured Jesuit Priest</h2>
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            <h2>Being ‘Home Alone’ On Christmas Sucks, And That’s Okay</h2>
            <div><h3>How to make the most of the holiday season even far from home</h3></div>
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    </div><p id="f793">Below are the links to the first five volumes of this series of Christmas themed stories, poems and articles. Enjoy.</p><p id="3da6"><a href="undefined">Liam Ireland</a></p><div id="2fbe" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Volume One of The Best Illumination Christmas Reads Volume One</h2>
            <div><h3>With this brief introduction to Christmas themed reads, I would like to extend an an invitation to our writers to send…</h3></div>
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            <h2>Volume Five of The Best Illumination Writers Christmas Reads</h2>
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Volume Six of The Best Illumination Writers Christmas Reads

Some Christmas gifts for our readers.

Illustration by kind courtesy of Pixabay

When I first mooted this idea of Christmas themed reads, I never thought for one moment that our wonderfully talented, not to say gifted, Illumination writers would come up with such an incredible variety of pieces. And I certainly didn't think I would get as far as six volumes.

Reading through all of the pieces I have come to realise, as if I didn't know already, that for some people it is a time of loss and despair, for others a time of great joy and happiness. Some of us struggle through the festive period, and some of us sail through it.

At some level or another, all of the pieces resonated with me. I have spent many a Christmas totally alone, cut off from the ones that I loved (parental alienation leaves a lot to be desired) and I have had unforgettably ecstatic Christmasses that will live on in my memory forever.

Through them all I have learned that every single experience is a valid one, as is every painful or joyful recollection of those experiences. For that reason, the one singular rule I set was that if a piece was well written, then into the collection it goes. Here I present you with a grand selection of what I have come across. Enjoy and have a very happy Christmas.

Paul Myers MBA

Emily Wilcox

Adam Borowski

John Ross

Rebecca Stevens A.

Sebastian Purcell, PhD

Kylie Craft

Britni Pepper

Tree Langdon

Camille Cordova

Below are the links to the first five volumes of this series of Christmas themed stories, poems and articles. Enjoy.

Liam Ireland

Short Stories And Poems
Writing
Christmas Reading Gifts
Illumination
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