Properly, it seems to be like we’re headed into unprecedented instances—once more.
We put this subject collectively the week after the election, whereas we had been someplace between the anger and bargaining phases of the seven phases of grief. However a part of that bargaining was deciding that we would like good issues this winter. We wish batch cocktails and potluck dinners and artwork galleries that make us cry. We need to give our favourite folks presents and keep away from our Trump-voting household in any respect prices. We need to be certain our neighbors are housed and volunteer with out Linda from accounting speaking our ear off.
We will’t have a president who’s not a racist, misogynistic, Christian Nationalist, however we are able to produce other good issues. So take into account this your information to the tip of 2024.
In these tales—which we’ll be rolling out on-line over the subsequent week—you’ll discover considerate, not-sponsored present suggestions, dozens of occasions price leaving your own home for, and chef-recommended recipes for comforting meals you may make in simply minutes.
You’ll additionally discover our favourite locations to flee actuality with out leaving Seattle, from bars to plant outlets to some very detailed directions on how one can take a shower with essentially the most transportive piece of cake you’ll discover in Seattle.
In the event you want permission to steer clear of poisonous or draining household, Stranger workers author Vivian McCall supplied a how-to information for spending the vacations alone.
And to maintain monitor of all of this, we made a 2024 Gladvent Calendar that you would be able to pull out and dangle up in your fridge to remind you that you just truly need to do this stuff.
(In the event you simply want to completely revert again to the security of childhood, there’s a downloadable coloring web page proper right here.)
We’re pleased with being Trump’s enemy, and we consider within the resistance. We hope you do, too. However do not forget that whereas we struggle and set up and resist, we additionally deserve somewhat deal with. Right here’s yours.
Hannah Murphy Winter
Editor-in-Chief
Click on the picture above (or click on right here) to obtain a printable PDF of the Gladvent Calendar!
