The return of the light!
The return of the light!
Happy Winter Solstice - tomorrow we start gaining light every day!
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Re: The return of the light!
Allelujah!
Commuting in the dark is no fun.
Commuting in the dark is no fun.
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oldr_n_wsr
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Re: The return of the light!
And in 6 months we'll start losing light every day.Guinevere wrote:Happy Winter Solstice - tomorrow we start gaining light every day!
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Econoline
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Merry Christmas and Happy Solstice, all in one song.
People who are wrong are just as sure they're right as people who are right. The only difference is, they're wrong.
— God @The Tweet of God
— God @The Tweet of God
Re: The return of the light!
"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, revelling.
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, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.”
–Susan Cooper
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, revelling.
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, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.”
–Susan Cooper
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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SOLSTICE DAYDREAM
an orange glow
the color of a crenshaw melon
slips behind an indigo sky
we dance across the universe
pivoting off the tips of
moonbeams sparked and bright
from a distant sun
folds of velvet drape
over the fiery star
spit orange flames like
tongues unhinged and
undaunted the snow moon
=
begins to wane as the tiger
transforms into a rabbit and the
blue moons of last december fade
Marie A, Mennuto-Rovello
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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oldr_n_wsr
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Jarlaxle wrote:Four months to motorcycle riding.
Just watch out for the left over sand on the roads.
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MajGenl.Meade
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Not as good as those writers but...
heard somebody call my name
saw the Lady of the Flame
she held out her hand to me
said dance child and be free
and the willow tree bends in the rain
to touch her samite hem
the moonlight strokes
the swaying oaks
in the sacred grove again
round and round we danced 'til dawn
i danced on though i knew she was gone
for she'd called my name as the candles burn
and her voice held the promise of return
and the willow trees bend in the rain
as the holy dance is done
by the ancient oak
our love is invoked
and gathered to the One
her mystery is not forgotten
down the darkened thousand years
the moon sails on
though most denied her
still the dance is woven here
(me 1981)
heard somebody call my name
saw the Lady of the Flame
she held out her hand to me
said dance child and be free
and the willow tree bends in the rain
to touch her samite hem
the moonlight strokes
the swaying oaks
in the sacred grove again
round and round we danced 'til dawn
i danced on though i knew she was gone
for she'd called my name as the candles burn
and her voice held the promise of return
and the willow trees bend in the rain
as the holy dance is done
by the ancient oak
our love is invoked
and gathered to the One
her mystery is not forgotten
down the darkened thousand years
the moon sails on
though most denied her
still the dance is woven here
(me 1981)
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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MajGenl.Meade
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Only in those Hope/Crosby woad movies
...and of course, the Woad Warrior hisself, mate:
...and of course, the Woad Warrior hisself, mate:
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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You have to, otherwise the seasons will stop, don't tell me you didn't?Lord Jim wrote:Did anybody paint themselves blue and dance naked in the moonlight?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: The return of the light!
Well, the hens have started laying again, so I guess they're feeling more confident that the world is no longer headed for oblivion.
Silly birds haven't been watching the teevee, obvs.
Silly birds haven't been watching the teevee, obvs.
GAH!
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The girls always know when the light comes back! Or maybe they just liked the person caring for them while you were gone......
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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I've always thought it interesting how the seasons follow the astronomical relationships rather than track them. The winter solstice isn't the middle of winter as you might think. It is the beginning because the thermal mass of the earth, the atmosphere, and the surface waters take time to respond to the shortening daylight and cause temperatures to drop to their annual lows sometime after the shortest day. The same happens in the opposite direction with the highest annual temperatures happening often in August, two months after the longest day. But we still use the astronomical dates to mark the change of the seasons because it is an easily determinable moment, a nice clear dark mark at the dates of solstice and equinox that we all can see and measure.
yrs,
rubato
yrs,
rubato
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Someone turned the lights on in the henhouse. Commercial layers are grown under lights because they only lay eggs when it is light. More hours of light, more eggs.Guinevere wrote:The girls always know when the light comes back! Or maybe they just liked the person caring for them while you were gone......
yrs,
rubato
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No, but doesn't this sound more fun?Lord Jim wrote:Did anybody paint themselves blue and dance naked in the moonlight?
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Personally, I enjoy the longer nights (and love colder temperatures); less feeling guilty about not doing stuff outside after work. Long nights give you a lot longer time to relax.