Are you ready for the shortest day of the year? This is it! We’ll get barely nine hours of sun today, and that matters in a solar home! But I LOVE the idea of the light returning soon to bring us another glorious spring!
Today I present to you a few GREAT bloggers who wish to share with you their thoughts around this holiday time.
Tom Sightings presents for you a A Christmas Miracle, set under the tree, that might just make you believe in the goodness of the world, fate, destiny, or kismet. If not, have a cup of hot cider; and that might bring you a stroke or two of luck. Happy holidays to all!
Meryl Baer of Six Decades and Counting just returned home following a two week adventure in Norway, land of the midnight sun – except in winter, when darkness reigns. She is thrilled to Return to Sunlight.
This week Linda and her husband Art volunteered at the Salvation Army Toy Drive, where they served the parents of 4,500 children in the Tucson area! Volunteers for a fabulous day! What FUN! Keep those kids reading books!
Adventures of the NEW Old Farts 
I did a jig of delight this morning when I remembered it’s the shortest day of the year. Bring on summer. Bring on more sunlight. Bring on bring on.
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YES CARLA! I can’t wait to experience our first springtime in our new home!
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Love this, Laura Lee. I have friends who had a party to LIGHT up the night. And yes, now we start to move back to more sunlight and longer days.
But tonight I won’t mind the coziness of shutting down around five o’clock with dinner and then some reading or TV with my best friend, my husband. Take care and happy holidays, Beth
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Thanks so much for the list. They all sound like fascinating reads. Happy Holidays to you!
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Happy holidays to all and to all a Happy Winter Solstice!
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What a nice list of sites. Looking forward to reading them, every one!!
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Please do go visit these sites everyone, and also consider joining our small but valiant group!
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Yes, ma’am, from here on the light returns to give us spring and summer. I’ll enjoy Winter more because of what comes after. Thanks for the links, I think I’ve visited them all. Have a great solstice! 🙂
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We are enjoying our first Winter Solstice in the country, where there are no false lights in the night to alter the feeling of it all. (My husband calls it “Happy Night Day”).
I can now understand why poets write of it and our ancestors created ceremonies and rituals around it. The darkness is deep; it gets into your bones. But, instead of it feeling oppressive, I feel like I’m participating in the cycle of life now more than ever. Without darkness, there is no light. Without destruction, there can be no creation.
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Yes T.O. the cycle of life since life began here on earth…living out in the country just puts you more in touch with “the real world.”
I love living here, and cannot imagine ever living in a town or city again.
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