Saturday, December 21, 2024
The Winter Solstice arrives today, bringing this year’s shortest day and its longest night. This is a period of darkness that encourages lots of anticipation. We’re doing that in our journey toward next Wednesday, a day that brings the festive cheers of Christmas and the First Day of Hanukkah; those offer light and warmth to the wintery world shrouded in shadows.
We can feel more optimistic while anticipating traditional events and the arrival of a new year. Those increase our hope and our sense of brighter days ahead. Soon, just a week or two after New Year’s Day, we will notice a subtle lengthening of daylight hours.
And so, we embrace deep winter’s festive moments, the recurring traditions and celebrations that offer solace and joy during this stretch of stingy sunlight. This year-end comforting pattern carries us through the darkest days; it gives us hope and promise for the new year.
Dear Friends: Our deep-winter traditions are warming despite the freezing chill. Diana
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