Here we are again at the shortest days of the year. Before the lightbulb, central heating, and a thousand other innovations over the last hundred years, humans were far more in touch with the progress of the seasons, kept time … Continue reading
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The waning days of the year have been observed with riotous excess, bright bonfires, sad laments, and melancholy memories for millennia. It is a time when we fearfully confront our mortality and loneliness or hopefully pray for better days ahead. … Continue reading