The Winter Solstice

Greetings on this Solstice Day!

This has been a good week!  Mum has been up in her chair in all her regalia for 3-4 hours each day ready to greet a surprise or planned visitor, or a nurse just stopping by on the way to some storage closet. Festive music is in the air and the mood on 6F is cheerful.

A friend from Abernethy visited this week and said: "Isabel - I look for the light in your bedroom window every morning.  When I see it come on, I imagine you waking up in Regina! I think of you every morning as the daylight comes!"

We have learned on this journey that prayer comes in many forms.

This is the time in the year in the northern hemisphere when we have the least daylight.  The winter solstice happened at 12:08 AM Central Standard Time on Saturday.  Today is "the tipping point". The earth now turns again toward the sun with the promise of longer days to come. Mum always revels in receiving the Sears Spring & Summer catalog and the first seed catalogs at this time of year.  It's a day when she loves to declare loudly, "At last -- the days are getting longer".   

We share some Winter Solstice words from one of the CDs that Isabel listened to this week:

"...Deep in the night, listen

listen

Turn to the light

waken, waken

Deep in the night turn to the light

Waken to Sun's ancient summons ~..."

from Carolyn McDade's "Born of a Star" on We Are the Land We Sing.