I never expected to hear the 'D' word applied to my lifetime, although my mother, who was a small child during the Great Depression, habitually recycles buttons and sometimes even zippers.
Most of my in-laws observe Christmas purely as a secular holiday, with the focus on exchanging gifts, stockings, a Christmas tree, and other traditional customs.
Try to get into the habit of running your Swing applications this way - not only is it correct, but some third-party components may not work if you don't.
Having a few regular stress relieving habits in your life can make your stressors affect you less, and can provide you with a means of coping in a healthy way when stress does get you down.
You'd think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behavior helps us "step outside time's flow" into "soul time".
These approving contemporary critics were particularly alert to each writer's contribution to the depiction of American social life, especially to regional differences in manners and character types.