I always enjoy Douglas Todd's column in The Vancouver Sun. Saturday's column was excellent. This is how it ends and it is so true. Our best travel stories are usually when things go wrong. We have long been telling each other in the midst of some travel disaster that we will be laughing about this in the future. It helps.
"Finally, even though it’s not an explicitly spiritual message, the author of Happier at Home, Gretchen Rubin, has a suitably out-of-the ordinary insight for getting through the next week or more with equanimity: Remember this season for its irritating oddness.
“Things that go wrong often make the best memories,” Rubin says. “This exceptional holiday season will probably be more memorable because it’s so different. We just have to find a way to make the most of it.”
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