When the sun knows stillness

[AltTransBikes]

Winter Solstice: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 12:11 PM EST

Solstice: sol sistere, latin for sun and standing still, the day when the sun stands still.

Root rhythms, circles and orbs, may grace find you in this northern, long nights time of year, may the peace of stillness be a reflection and reminder of the coming brighter days.

 

[ccbreder]

yes. the reason for all the winter holidays. if we party and make enough jolly, the sun will stop going lower in the sky and return to longer days and spring again. but we must party hardy.

 

[owl]

Alt, we really must meet one day

 

[sparky1]

even though it was" winter solstice"---I still had a decent "Solar Charge Day".

 

[owl]

Winter-Time

Robert Louis Stevenson (from A Child’s Garden of Verses, 1885)


Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,
A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
A blood-red orange, sets again.

 

[Lifemagician]

... if we party and make enough jolly, the sun will stop going lower in the sky ...

Will it then also stop going higher in the sky (with its associated heat)? We could do with a bit of cooling off.

Lifey

 

[WheelEstate USA]

... if we party and make enough jolly, the sun will stop going lower in the sky ...

Will it then also stop going higher in the sky (with its associated heat)? We could do with a bit of cooling off.

Lifey

Lifey, it wouldn't bother me to have more of the sun on this side of the equator. A shortsleeve Christmas is right up my alley