tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518809471705839772.post3191558210507833290..comments2023-09-08T10:31:48.093-04:00Comments on Trapped Under Something Heavy: SolsticeChanda (aka Bea)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12321020069183192224noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518809471705839772.post-35446541683630402772008-01-08T22:25:00.000-05:002008-01-08T22:25:00.000-05:00Thanks for visitng my blog and OH MY GOD, MERINGUE...Thanks for visitng my blog and OH MY GOD, MERINGUE MUSHROOMS!!! <BR/><BR/>My sister-in-law from WV brings a Yule Log cake every Christmas with those mushrooms. She finally started making extra mushrooms because they are a Christmas miracle as far as I'm concerned.annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01306851407588054538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518809471705839772.post-54390781216099486632007-12-26T12:06:00.000-05:002007-12-26T12:06:00.000-05:00So what IS it about the word Solstice, that like, ...So what IS it about the word Solstice, that like, Liv said, sounds so good? <BR/>I don't know - for me it evokes several images...<BR/> The image of druids cutting down with a silver sickle the sacred mistletoe on the Solstice.<BR/> Putting up our Christmas tree on the Solstice when I was a child, and feeling like Christmas was finally underway.<BR/> The short-lived, but wonderful Venison Sunday that fell often on the Solstice; again kicking off the holidays for my family.<BR/> Celebrating the Solstice with my friends at college before heading home - it was our thing for many years.<BR/> It also plays a part, for me, in the ritual lighting that occurs at Samhain, and is echoed on the Solstice by all the candles and light we use then, again as a ritual lighting of the darkness.<BR/>"And that's what Christmas means, Charlie Brown"<BR/>Or something like that!we_be_toyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12100712745473031460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2518809471705839772.post-86082780059282649262007-12-24T16:57:00.000-05:002007-12-24T16:57:00.000-05:00oh how much fun!!oh how much fun!!flutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828689769747130419noreply@blogger.com