2017 Home for the Holidays

Page 4 2017 Home for the Holidays LINCOLN DAILY NEWS November 22, 2017 of home and family Welco ing the season By Jim Youngquist T he holiday season is upon us. Beginning with Thanksgiving, it is the time to transform everything from the mundane to the magical. Although there are many things that change all around you, the biggest transformation is the one that happens inside you. A favorite holiday movie is that 2000 classic, “How the Grinch stole Christmas.” It isn’t that the Grinch is supposed to characterize the typical citizen, but at times we resemble the Grinch when we are ill-tempered, when we get annoyed easily, when we resent other people for one reason or another, and when we are totally zapped by the rigors of ordinary life until we are reduced to reclusive, irritable people devoid of joy. It can happen to anyone! It’s painful to watch the Grinch because we connect with his pain. And then the magic scene comes on the screen when the Grinch’s heart grew three sizes CONTINUED ===