On December 21st, my wife and I celebrated the Winter Solstice with her sister’s family.

It is something small we started last year. We went out to the most wooded part of our land, made a campfire, cooked food, and wrote down some resolutions to toss in the fire.

There is a un-explainable intimacy to writing out a wish for yourself and watching it burn. I feel it carries more weight somehow.