I wouldn’t hazard to guess if the New Christy Minstrels had the legend of the Green Man in mind when they performed what is arguably their most famous song. Some of the lyrics harken to the legend: “Well, I told my mama on the day I was born, don’tcha cry when you see I’m gone,” …
冬至大如年 (Dōngzhì dà rú nián) In China, “the winter solstice is as big as the new year.” Bryan Zepp Jamieson December 21st, 2022 www.zeppscommentaries.online www.zeppjamiesonfiction.com www.thebigweasel.wordpress.com Back about 500 BCE, some 250 years before Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth using nothing more than two sticks planted about 250 miles apart, a Chinese savant …
December 21st, 2020 This Solstice piece, like all the others I’ve written over the past twenty years, will deal with hope, always a central theme of the Solstice. But it’s going to be a darn sight easier to write than it might have been six weeks ago, when the outlook was still unremittingly bleak. However, …
Heikki Lunta Solstice 2019 December 21st, 2019 In places like the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, snow dances fall under the category of “be careful what you ask for.” Like Buffalo or the Sierra or the Rockies, it’s a part of the country that can see major dumpage—snow measured by the meter rather than centimeters. Some …
Happy Yaldā Night! Solstice 2018 December 20th, 2018 Well, I hoped he would be in prison by now, too. But the walls are closing in, and at this point, it’s a matter of “when,” and for how long, and how many others will be in adjacent cells. He’s going down. See? You feel hopeful already, …