A Reflection on Grief, Light, and Making Room for What’s Real Our culture tells us this is supposed to be “the most wonderful time of the year,” but that has never been the whole truth. …
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Honoring the Fullness of the Holidays
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Three Candles for Remembering
Two weeks ago, my partner and I decorated our house for the holidays. We put up a tree and the lights, hung the ornaments. Like many people, a lot of our decorations have sentimental meaning. …
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Is That Love in the Air?
Valentine’s Day is almost upon us. This time of year brings back childhood memories of preparing my Valentine box for school and addressing cards for each of my classmates. It also reminds me of celebrating …
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Honor the Dark
“Hello, darkness my old friend.” I’m that strange sort of person who likes the shorter days. I feel comforted when the darkness descends early. I like to feel wrapped in it, like a quilt, with …
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Holiday Expectations and Realities
How are you feeling about the holidays this year? Excited? Apprehensive? Sad? Disappointed? A bit of each? Back in March, when the world first entered Covid lock-down, most of us couldn’t imagine it continuing this …
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Thanksgiving During Covid
“Happy Thanksgiving!” Those words land differently this year. Our gatherings this week probably won’t look much like gatherings of previous years. A few days ago, my Facebook feed shared a memory from two years ago …
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Holiday Ceremonies
The basic definition of ceremony is, “a formal event held on a special occasion.” The word ‘formal’ is a little misleading. A ceremony doesn’t have to be formal in the sense of it being a …
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Welcoming the New Year
At the turn of the year, we hear a lot about New Year’s Resolutions. Will you eat healthier? Organize your house? Go to the gym? Write in your journal every day? While, in some senses, …
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