Carrying the Dead with Us at Christmas

Carrying the Dead with Us at Christmas

It is not an accident that Christmas makes us think of times gone by, and especially of people gone by. Perhaps we experience this as a sort of cruel twist as we get older. We might wonder why it can’t be like it was before, when ‘everyone’ was there. There is much...
Christmas Calls for Tradition and Creativity

Christmas Calls for Tradition and Creativity

The story is told of the family that year after year, regardless of the neighbors raising questions, was true to their tradition of cutting the leg of a pig a little shorter than normal butchering practice. Eventually it came to light that their particular practice...
What We Can Learn from Falling Leaves

What We Can Learn from Falling Leaves

Though I love autumn and the fall of leaves, at the same time something in me rebels. Even as I think, “I don’t want to miss their turning,” part of me just wants it to be over. Somehow, like life itself, autumn in its beauty and drama can be just too much. But maybe...
Christmas Details Matter

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...

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