Following the tradition of good wishes for the end of the year and knowing that I will not be online for at least one and a half days, I hereby wish the whole community a pleasant winter solstice. May the new time bring you sun and happiness. 
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Winter Solstice 2022
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Following the tradition of good wishes for the end of the year and knowing that I will not be online for at least one and a half days, I hereby wish the whole community a pleasant winter solstice. May the new time bring you sun and happiness.
What a wonderful thought and thank you for the thought and for the thread.
Agree and hooray for more sunlight per day until Summer
Agree and hooray for more sunlight per day until Summer
Oh, yes.
Amen to that.
A heartfelt and profound amen to that.
Now, I love - well, my very signature suggests my fascination with such significant annual markers of the passage of time - to acknowledge these four time periods, and, I detest winter, and thus, do - with a passion that I struggle to express on occasion - look forward to the lengthening of the day, an increase in temperature, and that welcome and inevitable consequent improvement in the quality of the light (and heat) that comes from the great globe in the sky that is the ultimate source of life on our planet.
But, there is an added personal dimension or element to this particular date for me, and it is this: My mother also loathed winter, the attendant darkness and the misery of winter's dark and dreary cold, and, almost characteristically, she died, just before midnight, on the night of December 21, four years ago tomorrow.
From a fellow Solstice celebrant thank youFollowing the tradition of good wishes for the end of the year and knowing that I will not be online for at least one and a half days, I hereby wish the whole community a pleasant winter solstice. May the new time bring you sun and happiness.
And, today, I salute the solstice and the memory of my mother.
Missed this one, happy solstice everyone... and as Dave Allen used to say, ... and may your God go with you...
Bring on the cold... bring on the rain/snow... wait... we already have that. Happy first day of Winter!
Well, winter solstice in the interior of Alaska brings somewhere around 3 hours of daylight. This year the temperature on that day was around -35 to -40 (colder in some areas). Just imagine this: -40F equals -40C.
At least the temperatures were milder in other areas of Alaska:
www.ktoo.org
At least the temperatures were milder in other areas of Alaska:
Intense meteor brightens Southcentral Alaska’s winter solstice
Many people in the Talkeetna area said they heard the meteor as it passed overhead.
www.ktoo.org
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