On today's episode, I share how family prayer during Christmastide reshapes our dinner table and why blessing the home on the twelfth day sets the tone for the year. A fox in the coop prompts a wider look at homesteading as a cure for complacency and a living answer to nihilism.

• daily family prayer as a binding ritual
• house blessing with chalk and holy water
• the fox, the rooster and the cost of comfort
• homesteading as discipline and humility
• becoming versus reinventing at New Year
• husbandry as purpose against nihilism
• roots, community and keeping children close
• presence over productivity at dawn writing