Life and Random Thinking

Around December 21st each year I go outside and do my little happy dance.  (Don’t watch, I dance like a cow on skates!)

I will be wearing my winter jacket, and my breath will be visible in clouds, but I dance anyway because I am celebrating.

I am celebrating “Over the Hump” day – Winter Solstice. In Canada that day is December 21st. It could be called “Here Comes The Sun” day ♥

Now the daylight hours will begin to grow ! 🙂

What is winter solstice?

winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky.

Regardless of the snow on the driveway, and months ahead of cool mornings, I know that that every day will start to have more daylight, and less darkness. 

Winter doesn’t disappear in December at all, cold days are still ahead. I may even have to shovel snow in January and February but my optimism is firm.

For a long time I can see hardly any visible difference in daylight in the mornings or evenings but in my heart I know the process of change is happening.

I can feel my optimism growing like a seed in the earth.  That optimism seed was planted in December, invisibly it grows below ground, but soon it will peek it’s head above the ground.

Then it happens! There is a more light outside when I wake up in the morning.

In the afternoon there is more light when I sit down to supper.

Spring and summer are on their way!  Here Comes The Sun   ♥

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Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles

Here comes the sun (doo doo doo)
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right

Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here

Here comes the sun (doo doo doo)
Here comes the sun, and I say
It’s all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been here

 

Imagine the dance we will do when the masks are folded and put away, when people can hug their friends without hesitation. 

I think the Covid-19 winter is declining, there could be a few cold nights but don’t lose your optimism my friends. 

I am believing we are  Over the Hump – Here Comes the Sun !

Spring and summer are coming, the seed are the ground, and soon will peek above ground.

It may still look like winter but my heart is singing anyway – David

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Click here if you would like to start reading one of my attempts at writing a story.

♥Either here with Ravi, a young man moving  from home to heal his heart – Click here

♥Or click here with a story about Luke – aka Skywalker (sort of appropriate for May 4th, don’t you think?)