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Dec.28.2012
The first wave of holiday madness is behind us—the shopping, wapping, prepping, cooking, eating (and, hopefully, cleaning up) part. Whew! Thank heavens that's over! Take a deep breath, and congratulate yourself for making it this far.
Now: who's ready to jump back into the fray and hit the post-...
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Jun.20.2012
The dying spring bowed out this year in a sunset the likes of which I have never witnessed. At dusk, the simmering atmospheric energy erupted into rain squalls throughout the Shields River valley at the base of the Crazy Woman Mountains, though in the west the sky remained clear....
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Jun.19.2012
Together as a global community let us join our heartstogether to welcome in the summer/winter solstice. Let us align our heartbeats with each other and with the heartbeat of the earth. As we do this our love radiates throughout the world.
June 20 is the solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere we...
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May.14.2012
There are two dates a year that Solstice is celebrated, approximately December 22nd for the winter Solstice and approximately June 22nd for Summer Solstice. Stemming from the Old French and Latin origins of the word, solstitium, its meaning is when the sun (sol) stands still (sistere, statum)....
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Dec.22.2011
Solstice, as the day of darkness, or a day of light, always encourages me to look ahead. In the summer, I'm in the depths of long days of bright sunshine and heat and I look ahead to more of these days. In the winter, as others more eloquently note, it's the darkest day up north. In the midst of...
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Nov.17.2011
On December 22 we celebrate the winter solstice. And as we all know this marks the Christmas holiday season which in many places around the world has become more of a commercial holiday than a spiritual one.
In Siberia trees are seen as seen as sacred as they bridge the heaven and the earth. There...
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Jun.19.2011
As we observe all that is happening in the world right now we are witnessing an incredible amount of imbalance being mirrored back to us by the extreme weather, political unrest, economic imbalance.
The solstice represents a time of change. And it is a potent time for us to reflect on the...
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Dec.24.2010
In the morning he thought Today I will have
two lunches but when he had the chance
he ordered a steak and cheese with a Pepsi
not a steak and cheese and a steak and cheese
with a couple of Pepsis to wash it all down.
Outside and after, under the half-past noon
grey snow singing, the day a gentle...
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Jun.18.2010
Solstice Publishing – The Turning Point in Great Fiction announces its call for submissions to the Celebrate The Season Contest. Send your short story entries to submissions.solstice@yahoo.com. There will be 5 winners and their stories will be published in both ebook and print as an anthology to...
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Mar.29.2010
I just wanted to let all my readers know that I am now with a different publisher. Solstice Publishing is a wonderful company and they are so wonderful to work with. They have top notch editing and will be bursting forth onto the market with great books in all different genres. Stop by and buy a...
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