Wednesday, December 21, 2022

happy at the solstice

Nu and I went to the solstice festival this evening: merrymaking, noise-making, meditating... my hair smells like smoke and my heart is grateful for the promise of extra daylight tomorrow.
“...This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar...”
 Margaret Atwood, Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995

3 comments:

Nicole said...

More daylight today! Yay!

StephLove said...

That sounds like fun. We went to a light display at a botanical garden.

maya said...

Nicole, I could feel it in my soul today!
StephLove--I saw! Beautiful pictures!!

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