All Good Things

jen murphy parker
10 min readJan 15, 2024
A stunning view, an origin story.

I don’t know how to take Christmas down in a non-maniacal way.

On January 2nd, I wake up with an EVERYTHING-MUST-GO mentality, a fire sale on holiday cheer.

Just one calendar day ago, these decorations looked merry and right, but now they are imposters, garish reminders that a cozy stretch of irretrievable time has ended. More, something that should’ve been obvious about the tree all along becomes clear: it’s…

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jen murphy parker

Jen Murphy Parker is a San Francisco-based writer exploring what exists in the middle - of parenting, of health, of life.