To my ideological adversaries and dear friends on this day

Please step back for just a moment and accept my sincere desires that you and yours are blessed today on the longest night and throughout the coming year.

May my Mother Earth hold you to her breast and nourish your soul.

May my Father Sky watch over you always and help you to be safe.

May we all find a way to peace and live in love freely shared.

Merry Yule without reservations!

Blessings upon your house.

-Hoot

:-)

I'm old, so you young folk enjoy an orgy for me.
The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling),

Maybe next year :shrug:

Interesting link.

-Hoot

"Territories," not "reservations"!!!!

I'm pretty sure I said withOUT reservations.

Merry Yule to you and yours sir, we shall drink to your continued recovery this fine day.

-Hoot

:thumbsup:

Warm in good company
Glowing human spirit
Nod to the points
and acknowledge the dark of the center which is hidden

We watch the setting sun
from beside the lit fires
which see us through the longest night
and acknowledge the wisdom that came before us

Huddle against the chill of night
adorned with sprig of green
Remember Remember the light will return
and acknowledge the seed dormant in the dark earth

Singing laughing joining together
in brotherly embrace
or passionate tangle of human husbandry
and acknowledge the cycles of life

Blessed be
part of life eternal
Joy at the sunrise
and acknowledge surviving the longest night.

Merry Yule, Hoot. We survive to look towards another distant spring after the mother sleeps and dreams her winter dreams.

A very cool Yule to you. :hug: