Anecdotally, I know a lot of families who are in the first group (i.e., uncertainty causing them to pull back their spending), and choosing to stay close to home for their holiday plans this year.
Prompt: “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”--Cormac McCarthy
What do your scars say about your past?
My scars are primarily internal, and I have little need of them to remind me that my past was real. The few external marks I bear merely identify me as being occasionally careless, unfocused or just plain unlucky. Burns on my forearm from sizzling cooking oil; stitches on my forehead caused by colliding with the edge of a diving board while trying to impress a special spectator; a permanent bump below my left shoulder after a rocky landing from a parachute jump. Normal stuff. But they sometimes make good conversation starters or diversions.
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