The Holiday Cycle

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Holiday Cycle</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> by Joseph Mills is more than a poetry collection that considers our relationship with the holidays and with time it reminds us how holidays are like memory markers taking us back in time each time a holiday rolls around. Just as Joseph Mills used wine in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Angels Thieves and Winemakers</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> to show us how we hope to age how we never open a bottle of wine thinking this is a bad idea and how the mere act of sharing wine with another person feeds our soul </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Holiday Cycle</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> reminds us to pause reflect and regret some of life's gatherings with family and friends. </span></p><p></p>