The chunk of time between the day after Christmas and that first full week in January — when most people find themselves slogging back to work, their hearts and minds full of hopes, aspirations and wishes for a good stretch of luck in a brand new year — is truly a liminal space.
Eyes still glazed from too much nog and a bit burnt out after staring into the blinking lights of the Christmas tree like Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) communing with the beyond via holiday decorations in “Stranger Things,” the transition from the cheerful-by-all-means blitz of the end of December into the check coming due on all those “I’ll do it in the New Year” plans you made, can be harsh, so it’s good to ease yourself in, and we can help with that.