Monthly Archives: December 2010

Light Struggles with Dark in More Ways Than One!

Considering how I carried on about the Winter Solstice yesterday, you might expect that we spent the day celebrating—setting everyday cares and work aside, tracking the sun’s progress across the sky, eating and drinking, and the like. If you did, … Continue reading

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In the Bleak Midwinter: Winter Solstice on the Homestead

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan/earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone . . . . —Christina Georgina Rossetti, In the Bleak Midwinter Indeed. Today, the Winter Solstice, although identified now as the first day of … Continue reading

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