The internet, especially the social networks, has made me aware of the entire world, not just my local hemisphere. (That’s a phrase you don’t hear everyday — “my local hemisphere”. ) I used to think today, the winter solstice, was a natural day of celebration since it signifies the end of the creeping darkness. For the past six months, ever since the summer solstice, darkness has been creeping into our days and stealing our light. Today we have reached the end. Tomorrow the light begins to grow, but only in the northern hemisphere. Down under, they begin a time of creeping darkness.
Still, since I live in the northern hemisphere, this is a day to celebrate the growing of the light.
Wishing you a day filled with light and lightness of being.
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Pat Bertram is the author of the suspense novels Unfinished, Madame ZeeZee’s Nightmare, Light Bringer, More Deaths Than One, A Spark of Heavenly Fire, and Daughter Am I. Bertram is also the author of Grief: The Great Yearning, “an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.” Connect with Pat on Google+. Like Pat on Facebook.
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December 22, 2018 at 4:39 am
Thank You!! That is very thoughtful of you. I wish you days filled with light, it brightness my soul, so I thought it would do the same for you.
December 22, 2018 at 2:40 pm
Hey Pat. It’s been a while. How have you been?
December 22, 2018 at 2:50 pm
I’m fine. You seem to be doing okay, at least from the way it appears on your FB posts.
December 22, 2018 at 2:51 pm
Beyond a little anxiety every now and then, pretty good.
December 23, 2018 at 7:29 am
Wishing you the same, despite feeling anything but lightness. Curiously, I seem to be using the darkest time of the year to stare into that same darkness, and in so doing, tapping into a vein of sadness and anger I didn’t know was there.
December 23, 2018 at 9:41 am
There always seems to be another vein of sadness or anger. Even now, after almost nine years, I still sometimes tap into such an unknown vein. The darkness doesn’t help, nor does the family and couple-oriented holiday season. I hope the coming lighter times will brighten your days a bit.