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How does your family celebrate?

Does your family celebrate a December light holiday (Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa or something else)? How do you usually celebrate? How do you see your celebration being different in 2020? Do you see any new traditions or ways of celebrating coming? Do you have some great ideas for socially distant celebrations?

I am looking for reader contributions for December. It does not have to be lengthy — around 500 words is fine. We cannot pay but will include a short bio and link to your website with the article.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace

“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

live in peace

“We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about telling the living to live in peace.”
― Anthony Liccione

Love and peace of mind protect us

Lake View
Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins

“Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.” —Bernie Siegel

Peace in you Heart

“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”

Francis of Assisi

Solving differences through peaceful means

“Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.” — The Dalai Lama

The most basic kind of peace work

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

Am I going to practice peace…?

“Every day we think about the aggression in the world. Everybody always strikes out at the enemy, and the pain escalates forever. We could reflect on this and ask ourselves, ‘Am I going to add to the aggression in the world?’ Everyday we can ask ourselves, ‘Am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?’” – Pema Chödrön