Finding stillness, as anyone trying knows (especially during the month of December), is an active process. It’s far easier to be still in your mind, for example, while your body is racing around than it is to be still in your body while your mind is racing. So what can we do besides run around searching, searching, endlessly searching for quiet and peace and stillness? Instead of putting all of our effort into attempting to block the noise out , we can invite the quiet in . W

My favorite childhood Christmas memory is one I can pull up from my mind as easily as a photo stored on my phone. I don’t even have to try, actually, because it’s the first image that pops into my mind when I think about the Christmas season. I remember a teenage me, complete with braces, braided pigtails, and flannel pajamas, baking Christmas cookies in the kitchen with my mom late into the night on Christmas Eve. After everyone else had already gone to bed, the two of us st