This very season is the one time period that brings on more complexity and heightened awareness to our nervous system than any other time of year. Add this with the 2012 hype/hope and we have a stress brew on high just waiting to boil over that no sommelier, Priest, bartender, French chef, therapist, hair dresser, barista or witch could downgrade to a simmer.
It is a time that we offer gifts to people that we could have helped all year long and reach out to family members that we could have connected with in April, in June - anytime. It is a time that we express more emotion, we feel even more sentimental, more heightened, more...everything.