happy solstice

December 22, 2004

Little darling, it痴 been a long cold lonely winter

Little darling, it feels like years since it痴 been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun

And I say it痴 all right

bring on the sun, bring on the happy shiny faces, bring on early evening sunshine and the iced lemonades and the sunscreen!

The ancient peoples who lived in ireland three or four thousand years before Christ knew how to celebrate the solstice – there is a passage in Newgrange that aligns with the sun rising on the morning of the solstice and brings sunlight into a chamber deep inside the mound. Interesting info here on astroarcheological sites in ireland.

I can’t wait until the sun starts to come back. I’ve been seriously hibernating the past two weeks, sleeping 10 or 12 hours a night, cancelling all my social engagements, haven’t been exercising or going out anywhere. even at home I haven’t been doing anything, just sleeping, and when I sleep it’s deep and dreamless.

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