Hi there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachie and I'm

here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the

things that don't. Today is a bonus episode with Tish Oxenrider. Tish has a new

book that walks us through Advent in the most lazy genius way possible. Her

book, Shadow and Light is simple, beautiful to look at and full of

permission to engage in the season of Advent without pressure or performance.

In this episode she and I talk about if there's a wrong way to celebrate

Advent, how to engage in the season if you're the only one in your family who's

into it and how our intentions around the feeling of the season are way more

important than the doing. It's such a rich 20 minutes so here I am talking to

Tish Oxenrider, talking about Advent, the season of Shadow and Light. All Advent

really is is a preparation and it is a separate holiday from Christmas. That's

interesting only really when you think of Christmas as 12 days and not

December 25th, which that's another topic. Regardless, I forgot about that. Where

are the 12 days go? December 25th is day one of Christmas. Historically it goes

through January 5th. The thing that's helpful to remember about all this

liturgical calendar or recognition is for those of us who are Christians, it's

we're not doing it because somehow God wants us or needs us to. This isn't like

we're making God happier by keeping Advent, so from Christmas or thinking of

Christmas as 12 days, it's for us. It's a gift to us. So the historic liturgical

calendar is actually a gift to us. It gives us permission to not be overwhelmed

by all the things holiday related all at once to where we can actually slow down

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