And so the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive,
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us - Listen!!
All the long echoes sing the same delight,
This shortest day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, fest, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!!

- The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper

HAPPY SOLSTICE, MY FRIENDS
12 - 21 - 2006

unfortunately too cloudy this morning for any glimpse of the sun
(tho now 'tis a glorious day of blue skies & fluffy clouds)
so instead, a stencil my sweet love made with her kids at school

 

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music to watch the sun rise
((( ... listen ...)))

Cloister
by Loscil (First Narrows)

 

 

 

 

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