Winter Solstice 2011

[Tsiyu]

The shortest day of the year, the longest night.

The days now get longer

Have a fire and burn up all the past.

A virtual blaze is fine, too.

Make a toast to the future.


Merry Winter Solstice to All
and Peace Out

[davsand]

1. Blessings of the season to you and yours!

May your holidays and the year ahead be full of love and contentment!





Laura

[Tsiyu]

2. Thank you Laura

Here's to a new year ahead.

and Blessings to you and your loved ones as well.

[GliderGuider]

3. Blessings to you and yours, Tsiyu.

[Tsiyu]

4. And Blessings

To you and yours as well, GliderGuider

[Howler]

5. Same Right back atcha Tsiyu! :) n/t

n/t

[Tsiyu]

6. Have a beautiful evening, (((Howler ))) n/t

[BanzaiBonnie]

7. When your dark hour is past,

may the light dawn brightly into your life once again. Thank the heavens for that joyous day.

[Tsiyu]

8. Nice words

nice time of the year.

[eilen]

9. Winter Solstice

And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us - listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.

~Susan Cooper

[Tsiyu]

10. Perfect!