Solstice Greetings 2020

Day 69: Dance the holly! / Dance the mistletoe! / The Light is now returning / And dark nights swiftly go! Solstice greetings to you, dear readers, with hope that this dark period in our history will be dispelled as surely as the gloom of winter gives way to longer and brighter days. It is the way of Nature to go in cycles: seasons, generations, epochs. The only true constant is that of change. Nothing endures forever and, as one sage put it, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Sometimes, especially here in the Pacific Northwest, it seems as if there are only two seasons, that of winter which lasts ten months of the year, shouldering on either end as two-week periods which slope gradually into that of a brief month of summer. Seasonal Affective Disorder aside, we northern-latitude humans are tried and tested survivors. As the days lengthen and Light, however dim, begins to encroach on the edges of darkness, bid your spirits to rise and join the celebratory dance.