This year’s Cottage Advent calendar is an audio countdown.

Each day (except for Sundays) until Christmas, you’ll receive a short audio clip related to the weekly theme. Most will be from A Beautiful Year. But not all! There will be other surprises along the way.

Today is the first window. Listen to the audio above.

The audio excerpt today is from “Advent,” in A Beautiful Year.

The first two Advent windows on December 1 and 2 are open to the entire Cottage community — of both free and paid subscribers. On December 3 through the rest of the month, the calendar will be for paid subscribers only.

If you are a free subscriber, now is a great time to sign up. For a short time, new yearly subscriptions are the discounted to $40. You can also sign up for $5 a month. Click the button below for information and options.

If you’d like to receive the Advent offerings and aren’t able to afford it, please reach out to us via email by clicking this link. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds.

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