Christmas is more than a season; it’s a checkpoint for the soul. Beyond the gifts and the lights, I’m using this time to shed the old and embrace a new year of self-renewal. Here’s to coming alive again. The Abiding Glow. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Our task must be to free ourselves … by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. - Albert Einstein. My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." -Desmond Tutu.