As the year turns, we’re invited into a season that often arrives wrapped in a package of expectation: celebration, connection, spiritual renewal, reflection. Yet the holidays also hold multiple truths at once, and for many, the season arrives with more complexity than cheer—distance from family, uncertainty about the future, unresolved conflicts, and more questions about spirituality and religion than answers; alongside the not-so subtle pressure to reinvent ourselves on Jan

When everything is expensive, you want to be more sustainable, or produce as little waste as possible, it’s time to think outside of the box. The Holidays don’t need to be about spending money—they can be about taking the time to make meaningful things.

This is my first Christmas away from home. Not away as in university or somewhere thirty minutes away, trying to make a landlord special house a home. I mean away as in 4,000 kilometres away. I love everything about British Columbia and my little life on the island. I love the misty mornings as the night’s rain rolls off the mountains and the lizards under my feet and the weather that never really gets that cold. Not like the cold back home. Not like anything I’m used to back