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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 18, 2018, 07:28:05 pm ---We should have our annual "longerdays" celebration.
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We should! :D
Jeff Wrangler:
I think it's pretty cool that this year the Winter Solstice and the full moon almost exactly coincide.
What is it about the Winter Solstice that stirs something atavistic in me, even more than the Summer Solstice?
CellarDweller:
Well, are you a summer person, or a winter person?
serious crayons:
I know that in Sweden they celebrate summer solstice by drinking vodka and eating crawfish. I know this because years ago I did a story on the crawfish industry in Louisiana.
So maybe we could come up with some similar custom(s) for Longerdays! After all, we pretty much invented the holiday.
So what should the food be? Most holidays are associated with particular kinds of food: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Passover, New Year's Eve and Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, Memorial July 4 and Labor Day (the last three pretty much the same).
So what should the foods be for Longerdays?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on December 19, 2018, 09:15:49 pm ---Well, are you a summer person, or a winter person?
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I've never thought about it in those terms, but over the past few years, as I've been approaching the upper end of middle age, heat has come to bother me more than cold.
But I don't think it's a matter of summer person vs winter person. I think it's something much deeper than that, something much more primitive, related to the dying of the old year and the arrival of the new, going from the period of decreasing sunlight to increasing sunlight.
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