Christmas Details Matter
“[T]he whole of man, soul and body, is nourished sanely by a multiplicity of observed traditional things.” Hilaire Belloc, ‘A Remaining Christmas’ Real festivity, like a human person, has a soul and body. A person’s thriving is most of...
The Fall of Leaves
“Whatever permanent, uneasy question is native to men comes forward most insistent and most loud at the fall of leaves. … It is no wonder, then, that at this peculiar time…the desires which if they do not prove at least demand–perhaps...
The Window of the New Year
“On New Year’s Eve, at about quarter to twelve o’clock at night, the master of the house and all that are with him go about from room to room opening every door and window, however cold the weather be, for thus, they say, the old year and its burdens...
A Wish for the New Year
“On New Year’s Eve, at about quarter to twelve o’clock at night, the master of the house and all that are with him go about from room to room opening every door and window, however cold the weather be, for thus, they say, the old year and its burdens...
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