It's beginning to look a lot like Solstice...

[laststeamtrain]

...can Saturnalia be far behind?

[Loonman]

1. In 3 minutes, that is

Winter Solstice: 1:35 EST.

[hatrack]

3. 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

Happy Reversal Of The Planet's Axial Wobble Day!!!!!

FINALLY, the days will start getting longer again - whew!!! :beer:

[sui generis]

2. mmmm Saturnalia

isn't that the ancient Roman holiday where the household owners had to be kind to and serve their slaves? Kind of an odd version of "secretary's day".

[Walt Starr]

4. That custom lives on

in the British "Boxing Day".

[datasuspect]

5. no far from it

it was a bacchanal, replete with orgies, sodomy, public drunkenness, food gorging, and lots of vomitting.

also, in roman culture, they somewhat held to the greek ideal of beauty; i.e., the pinnacle of beauty for most older men was a young man. so you can see where i am going with this. and where the romans went.

[sui generis]

9. bacchanal, saturnal

it's all good

I believe I could probably do the first four in your list without any vomiting.

:evilgrin:

(sui is banished to the lounge)

Actually have always loved the solstices and equinox before I ever knew anything about them historically.

[datasuspect]

11. anything with sodomy is fine with me

my kind of holiday!

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. "I'm dreaming of a real Solstice"

Nods to the unknown neo-Pagan who wrote this piece at least 12 years ago.

I'm dreaming of a real Solstice,
Just like the Druids used to know.
It would be so pleasin`
To stand there, freezin`
At Stonehenge in the sleet and snow.

I'm dreaming of a real Solstice
With no eclectic modern feel.
If your blade is silver, not steel,
Then may all your Solstices be real.

[Gloria]

7. Love this little Solstice song!!!

I wandered over to the Unitarian Church the other day while my mother was in the doctor's office. I was raised a Unitarian but am so "unchurched" that even Unitarians seem too organized for me! LOL
Anyway, I found out that a Wiccan is a member and ran a course on it and that the Unitarians actually have little brochures about paganism.

Maybe I'll visit sometime....feeling a need to connect since my recent church--the Democratic Party--hasn't really been feeding me spiritually recently...and I mean that...Social concerns have always been part of my "religion"--the Unitarian church I went to as a child seemed to impress social awareness in me, and then I got more political because of social concerns...but now, they seem to be so much less important in terms of mainstream politics...SIGH

[meganmonkey]

10. You may find what you need there

I wasn't brought up going to church at all, but I am a spiritual person. I go to the UU church a few times a year when I am in need of a little energy around me, and it is great. And the church here does a lof of social action stuff, I am sure most of them do...

[Gloria]

12. Yes, just to visit a few times a year may do the trick....

I have a DU friend who is considering joining me..

[laststeamtrain]

8. That's really good! I'm gonna share it around...n/t