Happy Solstice!

[Friday]

The Shortest Day - Susan Cooper

And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, revelling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us - listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.

Welcome Yule!

[Pat K]

Thanks Sandy and Happy Solstice to you
and all the rest of you folk. 

[dalebert]

The days have certainly been short for my taste. This is a good day indeed. I look forward to lengthening days.

Happy Yule!

[Tom Sawyer]

Happy Solstice you bunch of pagans.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Happy S day to all!

[Puke]

Huzzah!