Celebrate. Celebrate nothing at all. Smile with your eyes, the kind that pulls your temples up and your ears back so you know you mean it. Then laugh really hard. Repeat until you feel better, and start dancing if that doesn’t work. Preferrably in front of a mirror, so you can watch yourself awakening silliness out of it’s slumber. Shake the life back into you, will you?

Here are some songs in celebration of being alive. To spite this harsh season. To bite back at the biting winds. To put on another sweater and jacket and walk outside anyway. You will not defeat us, impending winter.

Beautiful Small Machines- Counting Back to 1

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The Optimen- 80s Babies

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Little Red- Coca Cola

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