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You drive home in the dark after something lovely. The evening was everything you hoped it would be, there was laughter, warmth, the particular ease of being with people you love. And yet somewhere between pulling out of the driveway and pulling into your own, something in you quietly drops. You stand at the sink rinsing plates and notice it: a kind of interior deflation. Not grief, exactly. Not ingratitude. Something harder to name. That feeling deserves to be sat with befor

There is a question I have been sitting with since Sunday, one that arrived from a conversation that ran nearly six hours and showed no sign of ending. Last week I had dinner with an old school friend, Sam, and our favourite teacher from year twelve, Sandy, who is now in her late-eighties and still easily the sharpest and most interesting person in the room. That night, we covered so many fun topics, from the train wreck of Washington politics to the meaning of ordination to

Many of us both look forward to the Christmas holidays and also find them completely exhausting. We can't wait to take a break, but all the awkward family get-togethers, rushing around, and busy shopping knock us out. What is a "holiday," really? The word "holiday" comes from an Old English word which literally means "holy day." First recorded around 950, it referred exclusively to consecrated religious days and the Sabbath. Even deeper, "holy" traces back to a root meaning "