The Winter Solstice arrives each year around December 21, marking the year's longest night and shortest day. It does not come with light. It arrives with darkness—deep, settled, and complete.
There’s something about a December New Moon that feels different from every other one. Not because the sky is doing something extraordinary, but because we are.
We are standing at the threshold
A German Christmas does not arrive suddenly for me. It unfolds. There is a way winter settles into my spirit each year that feels slower, heavier, and more deliberate than anything else I
An English Christmas feels as if my body knows it before my mind does. There is no single memory I can point to—no childhood home in the English countryside, no specific hearth
Long before twinkling lights and wrapped gifts, there was Yule—a celebration older than written language, older than kingdoms, older even than many of the traditions we now call Christmas. Yule is the