The Christmas Countdown
12/24/2025
The countdown to Christmas doesn’t arrive with fanfare. It slips in quietly, the way a familiar song fades up on The Wireless just when the day needs it. It’s the shift in the light, the way the air thickens with summer, the way people start talking about “heading home” even if home is only a few suburbs away. Ten days out, the world feels like it’s leaning toward something brighter. You can sense it in the way traffic thins earlier in the afternoons, in the way beaches begin to fill, in the way our playlists start to echo the mood of a country slowly unclenching after a long year. The Wireless becomes part of that rhythm — the steady companion in the car, the soundtrack to packing bags, the voice that keeps you company while you wrap gifts or stare out the window thinking about the year that’s been.



