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Hogmanay to the Horizon: Reclaiming the Season, One Threshold at a Time
The Winter Solstice — Surviving the Longest Night Before Hogmanay.Before resolutions.Before the noise of a new year. There is the Winter Solstice. The longest night of the year. For thousands of years, people marked this moment because reaching it meant one undeniable thing: you survived the darkness. After the solstice, the days begin to lengthen—slowly,…
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Reclaiming Christmas After Domestic Violence
When the Season Is Still Haunted, but We Keep Going Anyway I still hate Christmas. That feels important to say — not because this year was a failure, but because honesty matters more than appearances. We did many things right this year.We tried hard.We made new memories.And yet, Christmas still carries ghosts. That is the…
