Kitty Reads Lit for Peace: Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol plus The Next Peacelands

In today’s holiday edition, Kitty O’Compost reads a short, seasonally grounded passage from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol—his mid-career meditation on generosity, personal transformation, and the moral imagination required to change one’s life. Kitty offers only a brief excerpt, enough to settle listeners into the thoughtful clarity Dickens brought to questions of compassion and social responsibility.

These December readings are part of Kitty’s warm-up for The Peace Experiments: Experiment Zero, the new Peace Is Here series launching on New Year’s Day.

The episode closes with a special holiday version of The Next Peacelands. Instead of the usual real-time list of warzones and weapons suppliers, this month’s practice offers the names of spiritual and humanitarian organizations working quietly and steadily for peace around the world—an invitation to join your intention with theirs during this reflective season.

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• The Next Peacelands source: Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) and the Stockholm Internation Peace Research Institute’s Arms Transfers Database [as updated on Wikipedia.
• Music: "The Red Kite" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Intro Music: PulseBox on Pixabay

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• Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol on Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19337