Whenever the holidays draw near, it is easy to remember the sensory details that represent the season: the smell of cinnamon, peppermint, and chestnuts. The textures from picking apples and pumpkins. The noise from holiday dinners and planning. The anticipatory rush and stress of holiday shopping and sales.
These symbols of the coming season can be exciting, but the holidays themselves can be unnecessarily expensive and excessive. In most cases, our levels of consumption contradict our values and attempts to divest from capitalism, and our celebration is permeated by the allures and beliefs of this system of oppression. Is there a way we can be critical of our cultures of consumption, while also preserving the spirit of abundance? Perhaps beyond preservation, we can reinvent the meaning of abundance altogether.
Abundance is an idea that gets thrown around a lot, especially in spiritual, wellness, and money-making manifestation spaces. These industries are predominantly
— source yesmagazine.org | Gabes Torres | Oct 26, 2022