Amerika

May you all have a lovely end-of-year holiday, which you will note are perennial or endemic to all cultures and religious traditions, even if the exact dates and duration vary. Jul, Eid, Kwanzaa, Hannukah, Christmas, the Lantern Festival, and Diwali all celebrate the transition of years through winter.

We assume they celebrate this stuff in June in the southern hemisphere, but no one from there is taking my calls any longer.

To my mind, Jul (Christmas, Yule) means welcoming the new year. We have fought a good hard fight with the past year, so it is time to forgive it and let go of all of our resentments so that we can make the best of the new year. The peak of winter is death, forgetting, and rebirth.

I hope you all have a wonderful year ahead.

Tags: christmas, jul, yul