Are you looking for last-minute holiday gift ideas? Maybe you want to create something special but need a little inspiration. Here are a few ideas to fire up your creativity for gift-giving now and at any time of year.
When the Holidays are Hard
The Arts of Christmas
The Sounds of Christmas
One Way to Add More Meaning to Christmas
Several years ago, my husband and I asked ourselves this question: how could we make our family’s Christmas season more meaningful? We didn’t want to just give each other and our daughter a pile of presents. We wanted to simplify the gift-giving part of our celebration and also tie it into the story of Christ’s birth.
He started doing a little research and shared an idea with me. Why not use the model of the wise men’s three gifts as our own?
The Fragrance of the Holidays
The holiday season is filled with beauty. Everywhere I look, there it is. I’ll be writing about different types of beauty throughout this month, but I wanted to start with fragrance in today’s post.
We don’t typically think of the sense of smell as a way of experiencing beauty. But what a gift it is! And it heightens the beauty of the Christmas season for me.
Making a List at Thanksgiving
Words of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth, and Hope
Here at Glimsen, I share glimpses of the beauty around us—whether in nature, in the arts, or in the unexpected.
Lately, beauty of any kind can seem unexpected since we see and hear so much ugliness on TV and social media.
Today, as an antidote, perhaps, I want to offer up some words of beauty, goodness and truth, as well as hope.