2020 is not 1647

Why is this (season) different from all other (past holidays)? 

Yes this is a rift on a line from one of the spring holidays but it works for right now too. I keep seeing and hearing this false dichogamy between being safe and celebrating the holidays. None of the fall and winter holidays have been canceled. 2020 is not 1647, there has been no ban on being festive. 

I also know that I have a different point of view because for the last decade I have not spent the holidays in person with family/friends (because work etc. ) but this is no way means I have not celebrated any of these holidays. 

For example this was last year when I had Thanksgiving Dinner with my Pete, Ganesh, and Hamilton in front of a fireplace:

For those who think somehow we have time traveled to 1647 here are some reminders of ways you can celebrate this fall in a perfectly safe manner.

Have a Fictional Holiday: 

The great thing with Fictional Holidays is you can experience them again again and again plus you can have it on another planet or on a spaceship or in a different timeline. You can celebrate with people who would never end up in the same room. 

For example the picture below is just a draft of my Thanksgiving this year and includes Pete and Chasten, Buddy and Truman, The 8th and 13th Doctors, The TARDIS, Heat Wave and Captain Cold, plus Wentworth Miller and by the time I am done I will probably invite a few others. 

Have a Zoom Thanksgiving:

This will probably be the most common version this year. This option gives you the opportunity to celebrate with people geographically isolated, that friend who is overseas, someone who you have never met nor will meet in person but are internet friends with.

Create Something:

Maybe you write a poem of thanks to friends and family and mail it to them (helping saving the post office too.) Maybe you write a Thanksgiving song since there are too few of those. Maybe you film and share an Thanksgiving dance to bring a smile to others faces.

So in review 2020 is not 1647. 

There are still many ways to celebrate all the fall and winter holidays, for some they will look different, for some they will look the same as always, but the Holidays will go on. We can choose to do the responsible thing and not meet in groups which will lead to the death of those we care about. 

Get creative

Have a great time

Find ways to make the Holidays even more meaningful and fun than before

Do Not Kill Anyone.