As the year begins to exhale, and the light shifts low across the land, we enter a season of quiet transformation. Whether you gather around a menorah, a tree, an altar, or a simple dinner table lit by candlelight—this time of year holds a kind of hush. A sacred pause. A remembering. Not everyone celebrates the same holidays, but many of us feel the tug: to be near warmth, to hold our loved ones closer, to make beauty in the dark. And beneath the wrapping paper and gatherings