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Friday, 30 December 2011

Family Friday: Peace and Love

As we near the midpoint of the traditional twelve days, a period of 'time out of time', I hope you're all enjoying the holidays in whatever fashion works for you.

Here are some of the aspects of Christmas/Yule holiday tradition that I particularly enjoy:

  • all the light/fire references, reminding us that it all stems from a celebration of the return of the sun as the balance shifts from dark to light again
  • the greenery decking the halls, a lovely piece of sympathetic magic encouraging the non-evergreen life to remember that life goes on
  • the rich, warming, spicy food and drink (as I write this, I can smell a ham boiling away merrily in apple and orange juices with cinnamon, cloves and allspice) to nourish ourselves for the coming winter
  • the sense of self renewal which has become the tradition of New Year Resolutions, possibly stemming from a natural inward-turning impulse in these longer and darker nights
This is my last post for 2011, so: whatever holidays you celebrate, I hope you're making great memories and that 2012 will be a great and positive year for you.

3 comments:

  1. Rosalind Adam30 December 2011 at 13:58

    What a lovely post. I particularly like the idea of self renewal. Happy new year.

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  2. Nikki - Notes of Life30 December 2011 at 16:52

    All the best for 2012! Here's looking forward to another great year of blogging :)

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  3. Unknown1 January 2012 at 20:25

    Happy New Year Beth and Ha, look at you. I'm trying not to sign up for challenges this year, but I did really like the British Book challenge and there are books to be won! And if anything that challenge really helped me do my homework. Oooh.

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