Category: winter
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WINTER WONDERLAND YESTERDAY AND TODAY
“Daddy, can we go outside?” Sydney pleads for the hundredth time. “Can’t we go outside? I wanna play in the snow. I wanna ride my sled.” After numerous “no’s,” Dad finally relents, “OK, let’s go out!” Sydney runs over and pulls on Grandma’s sweater. “Gramma, Gramma, you come too?” Grandma rolls her eyes and responds…
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The Bleak Winter of 2026
It is winter and, in my part of the world, aside from a fleeting landscape of white following a snowfall, browns and grays dominate day after day, with long hours of darkness and only occasional sunny days. A pink rose dangles on a bush behind my family room, refusing to succumb to earth’s demand to…
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Musings on the Winter Solstice
The winter solstice, the day with the shortest hours of daylight in the year, has been celebrated by various cultures for thousands of years. The Roman holiday of Saturnalia, the Soyal celebration of the Hopi Indians in Arizona, the ancient Persian festival of Yalda, the Chinese observance of Dong Zhi are just a sampling of…