From the Place Where the Sky Meets the Ground

January, 2024.

We begin in a dry river bed, where water grows heavy in the sky overhead.

In this gray day, the sun is muffled, and its light diffuses across a landscape of wind, mood, and longing. We can see the clouds as they walk along the earth. There is a blessing here, in the presence of a connection that is not always so easy to see, or feel. 

Different elements are coming together, and the words here let us know about this gathering. This year’s journey starts from the place where the sky meets the ground. The place where formless meets form—the moodiest horizon, beckoning us closer. 

This is Jo. It is January, 2024, and I’m writing from a gray day, not quite as moody or dramatic as the one in our image for this month. As I sit here, I’m reminded of how it felt to write about our 2021 calendar, The Hum and the Holler. That calendar was a riddle—one that neither Corina nor I fully understood even as we showed up to write about it each month. This year’s calendar is not straightforwardly a riddle, but its name suggests that the calendar knows something that neither Corina nor I would ever claim to know, at least not definitively. 

How the Light Gets In is a calendar that will reveal many ways of working with brokenness in order to experience brightness, inspiration, openness, and moments of intense aliveness. Brokenness can hurt. There is so much hurt right now, in our broken hearts and in the world. Inside the pain I feel every day is a deep ache, a longing to connect with a new way, a new world. But where to begin?

Right here.

From the place where the sky meets the ground.