Comments on: A Solstice Greeting, Sort Of

By: A Solstice Greeting, Sort Of « Digital Dharma

A Solstice Greeting, Sort Of « Digital Dharma — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:35:48 +0000

[...] Winter Holidays, celebrating the point at which the warmth of the sun ceases its annual recession — the time when the days begin, imperceptibly at first, to become longer and to promise the warmth and riches of spring and summer — are universal in human civilizations. Doubtless it has been that way for thousands of generations (or three hundred, if you prefer). We give our holidays names like Hanukkah, Christmas, Yule, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Bodhi Day, and so forth. We hang upon them the trappings of the thousands of years of religious implications, and often attribute their origin to reasons other than the mere turning of the seasons. We invent new holidays, because we don’t want to celebrate other people’s holidays. MORE>>> [...]

By: Winter Holidays: A Solstice Greeting, Sort Of « CrackerBoy

Winter Holidays: A Solstice Greeting, Sort Of « CrackerBoy — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:31:43 +0000

[...] Winter Holidays, celebrating the point at which the warmth of the sun ceases its annual recession — the time when the days begin, imperceptibly at first, to become longer and to promise the warmth and riches of spring and summer — are universal in all human civilizations. Doubtless it has been that way for thousands of generations (or three hundred, if you prefer). We give our holidays names like Hanukkah, Christmas, Yule, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Bodhi Day, and so forth. We hang upon them the trappings of the thousands of years of religious implications, and often attribute their origin to reasons other than the mere turning of the seasons. We invent new holidays, because we don’t want to celebrate other people’s holidays. MORE>>> [...]

By: Kate Murphy

Kate Murphy — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:30:29 +0000

I’m reading this late, but still enjoying it.
It feels like talking with you. Good stuff.

Years ago a friend and I were talking about what it must have been like for the first guy who figured out the tides & moon thing. How he took his tribe’s elders down to the sea and said something like, Look tonight the sea only comes up THIS high, but tomorrow night it will pass over this rock. (etc.) How much power that must have given him. And then we wondered how many OTHER things he told folks that were total FOLLY.

Thank you, Bill.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:40:51 +0000

Thanks. My best wishes flow to you.