The Shortest Day

[lupestripe]

It's Yule for the Pagans amongst us or for those living in a more secular world, the less punchy "Shortest Day". If you celebrate Yule then I hope you have a good one and don't feel to disheartened by heartless card companies using the phrase "Have a Cool Yule" in their Christmas Cards. It completely misses the point and is also a pretty dreadful rhyme. To me, it's just one of life's little annoyances.

I always see 21 December as a watershed as it means that the days will now start to get longer again. Granted we won't really see its effects until the end of January but after the miserable darkness of the last two months, today being the Shortest Day is something to be thankful for. To me it symbolises hope and I am hopeful of brighter days to come. I'm sick of waking up when it's dark and feeling tired for most of the day simply because there's a blanket of murk that is shrouding the world.

Roll on Summer! Turn up the central heating!

Comments

[actively-lazy.livejournal.com]

Shortest day my arse, it was far too long imo, especially with the link system melting for 3 hours.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I had one of those days a week last Thursday when the host company shut my website down. Then, last Thursday they did it again for a wholly different reason. Grrrr. Still it just makes the other days shorter I guess. It's still annoying going into the office in the dark and then not leaving again until it's dark. Yey for long days and cookie dough!