Our weekend was packed - cousin sleepover, birthday party, carrolling party, family breakfast, singing at our congregation's solstice service.
But by far however the most treasured of the events is our candlelight Winter Solstice walk by the river with our friends.
Yes friends the darkness wins, but these short days so celebrate light:
Today the lemon sunrise lasted a few hours until sunset,
all day the snow glowed pink and purple in the trees.
This is not a time of black and white, my friends, outside us.
Among us, too, let's sing what winter forces us to know:
Joy and colour bloom despite the night.
We measure warth by love , not degrees.
~ Patricia Monaghan
