Tsh chats with Danielle Bean about Advent, particularly why they both love this old, time-worn season found at the start of the liturgical calendar. They also get into parenting, grandparenting, making time for solo reflection, and ways to incorporate their family's Advent traditions into ordinary family life.

* Danielle Bean’s newsletter: Girlfriends After Hours

* Danielle’s Advent series, Look + Listen

* Tsh’s 101 primer: A Brief What, Why, & How of Advent

* Tsh’s newsletter: The Commonplace

* Tsh’s books, trips, & Rule of Life

* Tsh’s Advent book, Shadow & Light

* Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy

* Recommended reads

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* Buy a round of drinks

* Join the next pilgrimage on the Rhine River

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