Hanukkah, Christmas, and the secular new year, encapsulated as the "holiday season," essentially, have just ended. It was a hard one this year for me, full of nostalgia and longing, full of personal disappointments and unknowns, and also for what's coming. Perhaps I'm not alone in these feelings.

So what did I do? I did the American thing of going shopping! In this episode, I tell the profound story that came out of it.

I hope you enjoy it, and may it be a good year, different from all the doom and gloom that so many of us are experiencing.