I think I'm just going to say....

[hester_prynne]

MERRY DECEMBER 25TH TO ALL, AND TO ALL YOU FREAKS, GOODNIGHT!!!!!





H

[tinkerjack]

Hester you is always the optimist. I can't go there but I can wish you a happy december 21, cause this darkness got to pass. Seven oh two tulsa time, every light burning, my electric meter spinning, and I light a candle because it is getting darker.

Increasing knowledge increases sorrow I read in some old book.

We have a choices, we have our fates, we have random karma, the accident of birth. I may become a Zen Buddhist yet, soon as I get my mind around random karma. we have our genetic disposition, some of us between optimism and
Pessimism


Meliorism and Perjorism
Pieces Of Eight- Sydney J Harris

[hester_prynne]

Yes it is all about the solstice, the light coming back. It gets dark here now by 5pm and it's dark in the morning when I'm waking up for work. So far, that's been the hardest part about my new job, is waking up at the crack of morning night!

I'm going to a solstice celebration tuesday night, solstice is 10:30am here the next morning.

More knowledge=more sorrow. This is so true. But also true, for me anyways, is that sorrow=deeper joy eventually, if that makes any sense.

This post was actually meant to be a scathing comment on the useless controversy going on about happy holidays vs. Merry Christmas. Sorrowful stuff yes. Arguing about what to call the "Season of Joy"....

H

[tinkerjack]

ten four on the major issue of happy holidays, next we will move on to a constituitional ammendment to protect Christmas, then we will have one to prevent gay marriage, then the burning issue of protecting the flag against...

I tell ya with all this important stuff to deal with who has time to notice anything else.

Thinking about a GO I saw over on another board about self improvement. Chirstmas, I just don't think I can fake it anymore. Going to duck it thist year. Do the solstice thing by myself.

[Doreen Peri]

the accident of birth

Love that. And what a glorious accident!

Happy Merry Joyful Solstice to All!

More light, coming soon to your neighborhood skies!

Pray for peace
and if you do not pray
at least, repeat mantras
from your heart, and
if you do not meditate,
wait patiently and start
each day the way
a god would do if he or she
were to create a sunrise.
Wise are those who carry
peace like light inside their eyes.

Pray for peace
and if you do not pray,
at least sing or dance –
jazz and blues –
for if poetry is the voice
of angels and of saints ...
music is the sound of life
itself.

Announce good news!
Share harmony and wonder
and when the thunder claps,
offer witness to your joy
and the world will be enriched
by the wealth of you.

(You can call it Christmas or Holidays or Solstice or anything you want. It's a time of year when tribes all over the planet celebrate light during the bleakest days of winter. http://www.candlegrove.com/home.html ... Joy to the world. )

[whimsicaldeb]

I like the way Virgin Mobile says it best ...

Happy Merry Chrismahanukwanzakah!

http://www.chrismahanukwanzakah.com/

ps ... the Hindu Santa is a hoot!
~enjoy!~

[jimboloco]

it must be an immaculate reception

[mnaz]

..... all you freaks.... seems on-point.... can't explain it just yet.



Completely appropriate....

But God how the challenges mount.


I never thought I would live to see this day.

Grateful, at times, just to be here.

[gypsyjoker]

Seattle Waterfront

At homeless beat feeling


Ghosts of Baltimore
_________________

Just wondering
will you be home
for the holidaze?

I used to love the road on Christmas day, silent radio, empty truck stops, no traffic, the sweet solitude, the day felt holier on the road then anyplace else I have ever been

But God how the challenges mount.


I never thought I would live to see this day.

I worry too much, right now the thought of spending Christmas days with a bunch of people with no reason for the season seems Excruciatingly tedious

But by my second glass of wine

I will probably start to feel some holiday spirits. Double holiday this year I see by my lunar calendar.

I wish you all a merry happy solstice.