Twenty Holiday Gift Ideas That You Can’t Buy on the Internet

1. Tell someone you love that you don’t need presents because you don’t have the energy to open anything.

2. Give yourself one hour to sit still and breathe deeply for one hour and when unwanted thoughts appear, tell them calmly, “No, thank you.”

3. Imagine a world without pandemics…just a lot of colds and flus and general joint and back pain.

4. Imagine a world without extreme inequality…for one hour.

5. Imagine a world without school shootings.

6. Imagine a world with clean air and water and enough food and humane treatment of all humans and animals, except for rats.

7. Imagine a world where your computer never slowed to a crawl, or lit itself on fire.

8. Imagine a world where calendars didn’t exist. And how hard it would be to schedule a meeting.

9. Imagine a world where we were all more kind to ourselves…and thus more kind to others…except for extreme right-wing folks.

10. Give yourself the gift of remembering a time you felt completely satisfied. Think hard. Its in there somewhere.

11. Eat a delicious dessert. If you feel adventurous, bake it yourself first.

12. Give yourself the opportunity to sit and do nothing except being there with your dog. If you have a dog. If you don’t have a dog, go get a dog first.