Love plays the long game in the dialectic of our becoming. This Companion Journal provides a space for the exploration of that long game through meditative creative prompts, rooted in words and phrases that accompany us as we cross over Winter’s thresholds, whether those thresholds last one evening in the turning of the year, or whether we are held in them for longer stretches of our lives. Words and phrases, like stillness, magi, embers, yearning, and auld lang syne, offer us room to reflect, grow, and flourish in relation to the meanings they carry within us, as the days shorten and the evenings deepen. Enjoy exploring within this journal on its own, or in tandem with its generative collection, Horizons of Joy: Poetic Thresholds for Winter, which also offers the deeps stories of these words along with accompanying poems.