Merry Christmas

and Happy New Year!

Dear Friends,

We would like to extend our warmest wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

May 2025 bring abundant joy, happiness, and strength to you and your family.

Wishing you all the best,

The East is Read

p.s.

A personal note for Christmas:

For me, this season holds a special grace,

It absolutes the flow of fleeting time.

At this one moment in the turning year,

We know with certainty that, come the dawn,

The days will lengthen, bringing light anew,

In the embrace of order, calm, and goodness.

Christmas, or the Solstice deep in winter's grip,

Anchors the course of all our fleeting days,

Implying not that we are shaped by time,

But that we draw near to perfect goals beyond—

Liberty, equality, and peace,

love, comfort, and the higher things.

Christmas holds such value in its gift:

An absolute, transtemporal hope that stands.

—Yuxuan Jia