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Our traditions and culture are important and define who we are and where we came from. No one will ever protect your culture, traditions, and family for you. If you want yours to survive you must be it's greatest champion. YOU must be the hero of your family's line.

My family is a bunch of home brewers going back to prohibition with some of the branches. Every Christmas the entire family always brings or sends each other a cider, mead, beer or wine. They all get passed around and handed out and any new comers are gifted a all in one home brewing kit for the next year.

Political, religious, ideological, and personal grievances all get shelved when its time to hand out the sauce and its a unifying event that keeps us together as a community and provides a sense of membership for those that join our family through marriage, friendship, or otherwise.

Its a valuable tool and the fun, comradery, and competition it fosters ensures that extended family stay involved and invested even when they can not be with us. Equally it promotes membership in our common/collective culture, beliefs, and our morality as a family.

I have other tradition that I promote and I add new ones all the time but it got me thinking; what are your traditions, how do you foster family, community, and philia in your life?

Merry Christmas

Our traditions and culture are important and define who we are and where we came from. No one will ever protect your culture, traditions, and family for you. If you want yours to survive you must be it's greatest champion. YOU must be the hero of your family's line. My family is a bunch of home brewers going back to prohibition with some of the branches. Every Christmas the entire family always brings or sends each other a cider, mead, beer or wine. They all get passed around and handed out and any new comers are gifted a all in one home brewing kit for the next year. Political, religious, ideological, and personal grievances all get shelved when its time to hand out the sauce and its a unifying event that keeps us together as a community and provides a sense of membership for those that join our family through marriage, friendship, or otherwise. Its a valuable tool and the fun, comradery, and competition it fosters ensures that extended family stay involved and invested even when they can not be with us. Equally it promotes membership in our common/collective culture, beliefs, and our morality as a family. I have other tradition that I promote and I add new ones all the time but it got me thinking; what are your traditions, how do you foster family, community, and philia in your life? Merry Christmas

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As a kid, extended family would always come up for thanksgiving from out of state to stay several days. We would do the traditional "mud bowl" in the school football field right behind the house that turned into deep soft mud every fall. Always looked forward to it. Now everybody grown up and living far apart, and becoming very different people, we have no more holiday tradition. I live near my parents, but thats it. Minimal contact with my siblings, zero with extended family. Kind of a bummer. I usually swing by my parents house christmas eve, just because i know it makes my mom happy to have at least 1 kid around. I generally just go hunting thanksgiving and christmas. Holidays have become pretty meaningless to me with the family so split up and divided.

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I believe this solitude and division you speak of is by design. They are killing off our history and our spirit.

The intent of this post is to find and share our traditions, hopefully you can find inspiration to begin a new tradition that can bring you and your family closer together.

This year, make it your duty to reach out and be the Patriarch your family is lacking right now.

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My siblings are devout branch covidians living in california for one thing. Also my sister is dirt poor from an ongoing string of poor life decisions and id have to pay to fly her and her herd of kids up. Also neither can afford to take time off work. So the sibling thing is a dead end. If i cant even get the immediate family together, kinda removes any motivation to reach out to extended family. It wouldnt be the same.

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I am sorry to hear it.

Maybe reach out to community and friends closer to home geographically and share in community tradition with them. I hope you can find a way to promote you and yourn.

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Do you ever mention to your covidian family members that theres a lot of places completely open in this country and nobody is dying. Maybe tell them to turn off the tv and actually go outside. The world is fine. The news isn’t.