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Dec 3, 2020

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MIXTAPE

Sweet Secret Peace

A Christmas mixtape

Photo of dark, narrow, calm river bordered by heavily frosty trees branching over it from areal perspective. — Image by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

Christmas songs that seemed simple in my youth now carry inflections of complex feelings many of us experience during the Christmas season: nostalgia and contentment, longing and melancholy. The best songs reflect this complexity, or, at least, compliment each other in a carefully-crafted playlist that tries.

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Jessica Lee McMillan

Jessica Lee McMillan

Poet, Iconoclast, Word Nerd. Likes shiny things. Writes on Philosophy, Music, Nature.

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