I Came...I Saw...I Ate...I Napped.

i think i'm going to start calling the winter solstice 'life day' in my imaginary worlds. you know, because its so short.
and the summer solstice death day, because its so long and miserably hot.
(i understand oz is the reverse, the equator is hot all the time unless you're on top of a mountain, and the poles are too cold for humans to over populate them)

vernal and autumnal equinoxes need better names. on some world the winter solstice is also new years, and on some its the spring equanox.
might even have it be the autumnal on some, because all endings are new beginnings and that sort of thing.

(i tend to relate vernal to beltaine and autumnal to samhain, but this is not stirctly correct. i forget the actual celtic names and don't know indiginous ones and wish the latter i did)

the past couple of years i'm glad to see past.
i'm not hoping for a myricles this coming year, just something resembling a return to sanity.

the mid terms were an encouraging sign, however much less then the complete reversal of the prevailing blindness i would have thought most of us might have wished they were.

of course politics isn't the beginning and end of how people act, just an example that exerts far to much influence on how they do, and on other things around us.

i still dream the same dreams, little houses, little trains, nature no more disturbed then it really needs to have the houses and trains, computers and refrigerators.

 

I read a story recently where instead of talking about the shortest day, they were celebrating the longest night. Kinda liked that.. It sounds happier.

 

sounds good too.

 

Certainly Makes More Sense Than Celebrating "Xmas In July".....I Could Never Understand That.....



Cheers Glen.

 

well if you're in the southern hemisphere and want snow on the ground. remember the shortest days there are the longest ones in the northern.
(never lived in nor even been to oz or nz or any of those places myself, but a large part of the human population of the planet do)