appears in the evening sky, symbolizing the Star of Bethlehem. The Holy Supper : A meatless 12-dish meal

You sit on a boulder that has been there since the last ice age. You watch a river carve a canyon at a rate of one millimeter per year. You realize that your quarterly report, your minor grudge, your anxiety about a text message—these things are not just small. They are ghosts .

Infuse the evening with hot tea from a samovar or a simple, high-quality vodka infusion with pine needles or sea buckthorn.