... sadly, here, it isn't (not starry but cloudy - mild, wet and windy weather at the moment, which doesn't exactly feel Christmassy!)

But the reading/extract I wanted to share with you all for Winter Solstice most definitely is.

I wanted to dig this out for the Solstice last year, but no longer have any of the books in question (sorrow) and didn't ( Read more... )

I promised a second Solstice post, after the story mathom; this is squeezing under the wire somewhat, since the 21st is nearly over here, but I have spent most of the evening sculpting Lego figures out of icing (of which more tomorrow, if LJ/DW will let me post pics!) and so am somewhat behindhand...

One of my Christmas/birthday presents last year ( ( Read more... )

I realise the longest night was in fact last night... but I interrupt my crazy scrimmage of lists, wrapping, ingredient-buying and baking to bring you the first of this year's two Solstice posts.

A solstice mathom from the Powers-verse for all my LJ/DW/online/fandom friends; thank you for bringing light into some of my darker corners this year ( Read more... )

If it's Second Small Person's birthday, then it must also be the winter solstice, that time when at the darkest moment of the year we need thoughts of warmth and celebration and light. Two things I thought I would share, this year:

( T. S. Eliot's Journey of the Magi )

This is both my belated-Solstice and early-Christmas post, wishing you all warmth, light and happiness of the season.

From Antonia Forest's End of Term, which has the most magical description of the school's Nativity play being performed in the town's Minster. I am no longer a Christian, but I can't read this description of the performance of the ( Read more... )

Winter Solstice; here we are, at the darkest and the coldest moment before the world turns.  (Apologies to any readers in the Southern Hemisphere, this is a very northern-centric post ( Read more... )