Just A Perfect Winter Sunday
It’s Sunday and it’s finally looking as if winter is here. Due to Global heating winter this year is very late. Even now looking outside my window, some of the trees still have their leaves on. My garden is still green and doesn’t have the usual brown freezing color of winter and the most surprising thing is that some of the plants still have their flowers. And still it’s a winter day. Gray, cloudy and rainy. The rain is pounding on my roof from the early hours and the only thing I feel like doing is stay in bed, read some books, drink warm chocolate milk (coco) and talk with friends. Perfect winter Sunday day.
These kinds of days are made for connecting with friends, family and sharing good times with each other. No wonder that all religions have some kind of family celebrations at the end of December. Those celebrations have a lot in common mostly full of lights and giving and sharing presents. The most known ones are Christmas and Chanukah but there are more of those light celebrations. But there are more like: St. Lucia’s Day in Sweden, Sint Maarten and Sint Nicolaas in Holland, Loi Krathong Festival in Thailand, Diwali in India and even the modern Kwansaa festival in the African-Americans communities.
All those festival are actually a variation of an old pre-Christian celebration called Yule. Yule was the winter solstice celebration of the Germanic pagans. Since the Yule festival is native to the northern European lands, where midwinter is a time of short days and little light, the original sense of Yule as a midwinter festival had much to do with “bringing back the sun” and creating bright, shining, gold or yellow sun- and fire-themed decorations and festivities. Another connection may be to the brightness of the sunlight glaring off the white snow, or simply the bright glare of the sun itself as it rides low on the horizon. Therefore, likely meanings may be “Shining Time”, “Bright Time” or “Golden Time”. Therefore all the twinkling, sparkling lights that decorates our streets on these days.
As I was opening my mailbox I got this wonderful reminder from my friend that was just the thing for today and I’d like to share it with you.
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
..one old love she can imagine going back to..
and one who reminds her how far she has come…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
…enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own
even if she never wants to or needs to…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
..a youth she’s content to leave behind…
and a past juicy enough that she’s looking forward to retelling it in her old age…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
…a set of screw drivers, cordless drill, and a black lace bra…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
…one friend who always makes her laugh…
and one who lets her cry…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
…a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone else in her family..
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
…a feeling of control over her destiny…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW.
…how to fall in love without losing herself…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
… how to quit a job, break up with a lover, and confront a friend without ruining the friendship…
… and how to change a tire!
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
…when to try harder.. and … when to walk away…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
…that she can’t change the length of her calves, the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW..
…that her childhood may not have been perfect.. but its over… !
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
…what she would and wouldn’t do for love or more…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
…how to live alone… even if she doesn’t like it…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
…whom she can trust, whom she can’t, and why she shouldn’t take it personally..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW..
…where to go… when her soul needs soothing…
it can be her best friend’s kitchen table..or a charming inn in the woods…
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW…
…what she can and can’t accomplish in a day..a month…and a year…
I wish you a wonderful cozy and warm day!
December 7th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
except for the bra there is nothing in it that requires a woman exclusively and does not apply to man as well, is my opinion.
let me be candidate for a couple of those dotted places..
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December 8th, 2006 at 8:46 am
Daan, you are absolutely right! There is nothing there that is ONLY for women (you can also chose for the black bra..)
The difference is that for man these choices are natural and they take it for granted, while most women ask permission to have them and most likely will feel guilty if they do it against the will of others. What looks natural for man to think, behave and have are in most women’s cases hard decisions that they need to take.