Day 1: A lightly festive Digital Advent Calendar
Kicking off 25 days of tiny daily delights delivered to your inbox
Pretend this isn’t a digital letter that landed in your too-full inbox, along with one zillion other digital letters demanding your time, attention, and (most of all) your money.
Pretend this is a tiny door.
Pretend it’s carved in the most intricate detail and painted a fun color and it has a tiny little doorknob.
Pretend like, when you open it, there’s magic inside.
Pretend every day there’s a new tiny door to open.
Ok, you can stop pretending now...
Because it’s real.
From today to December 25th, I will be wrapping up a (small) daily delight and delivering it to your inbox. Think of it like a lightly festive, (sort of) seasonal digital Advent Calendar in the spirit of the season– whether you’re celebrating the holidays or wintering or just looking toward the end of the calendar year.
There will be things I’ve loved (and I think you’ll love too), things to make you laugh and feel hopeful, prompts to help you pause and reflect, invitations to help you play and remember.
There will be nothing to buy. There will be no big asks. There will be no long essays or big events or time consuming requirements. I know there are already plenty of demands and deadlines and commitments requiring your time and headspace.
But I also know we all need a little room for joy, for lightness, for quiet and presence, for creativity and fun. Even in a festive season like this, those things can be hard to come by. Consider this a tiny door to that little room.
I’ll meet you there.
A simple question to begin
I just spent a week with my two and four year old nephews whose big (and sometimes bossy) imaginations took me on train rides and plane rides and through parks made of legos with slides that become space ships and trash that became meteors and the only rules were the ones we made up and constraints only existed to suit and shape our storylines.
It was so simple.
I don’t know about you, but I could use more simple. Memories that don’t require much making. Comfort that comes with ease. Kindness aimed inward. Giving that doesn’t ask so much. Reminders of light and joy and hope that come knocking at my door.
How about you?
What do you need in this season? If you could invent the rules and bend the constraints to suit your story, what would this month look like?
More reading by the firelight in my favorite cozy armchair. Warm drinks and meals with a balance of healthy and indulgent. Memories shared and new ones made. Snowflakes (real or handmade). Time to grieve but in the company of others. ✨
Love this!!! And magical doors