Kitty Reads Lit for Peace: Kate Douglas Wiggin – The Birds’ Christmas Carol plus The Next Peacelands

This episode features a warm, humane reading from Kate Douglas Wiggin’s 1886 novella The Birds’ Christmas Carol—a tender holiday story shaped by Wiggin’s early work as a teacher and social reformer. Kitty reads a short excerpt that highlights Wiggin’s belief in community care and the quiet dignity of everyday kindness.

Kitty O’Compost continues warming up for The Peace Experiments (Season Zero), the forthcoming Peace Is Here series exploring peace, AI, and the cultural commons through grounded storytelling and thoughtful reflection.

For this special holiday edition of The Next Peacelands, Avis Kalfsbeek changes her focus from the factual grounding of warzones and arms suppliers to highlight the spiritual organizations and networks actively building peace around the world.

• Get the Winter Holiday reading list with links to full stories: www.aviskalfsbeek.com/holiday
• Get the Avis’s books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com
• Music: “The Red Kite” by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez
  • Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com
  • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
• Intro Music: PulseBox on Pixabay
• Upcoming series: The Peace Experiments
• Kate Douglas Wiggin – The Birds’ Christmas Carol on Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/721/pg721-images.html