Vintersolstånd. Midvinter. Den kortaste dagen. Dagen när det vänder.

Susan Cooper, författaren som skrivit en av mina absoluta favoritserier (En ring av järn), har också skrivit en underbar dikt om den här dagen: The shortest day.

#susancooper #theshortestday

@BarboftheBay

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere! ❄️🌞

May you find the light on this darkest of nights.

Brighter days ahead 🔥✨💗

#WinterSolstice #MidWinter #Winter #SpringIsComing #TheShortestDay
#TheLongestNight

And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us—listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.

Welcome, Yule!

#susanCooper #theShortestDay

And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us—listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.

Welcome, Yule!

#susanCooper #theShortestDay #solstice #winterSolstice

The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper
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And so the Shortest Day came and the year died — And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world — Came people singing, dancing, — To drive the dark away. — They lighted candles in the winter trees; — They hung their homes with evergreen; — They burned beseeching fires all night long — To keep the year alive. —
#yule #solstice #SusanCooper #TheShortestDay #CarsonEllis

@bensaufley Yeah, that's a bit weird isn't it. I absolutely love her poem The Shortest Day and it is very meaningful to me. And I guess I loved her secondhand because my daughter does.

But obviously I am overdue to read the series directly and am going to rectify that immediately!

#SusanCooper #TheDarkIsRising #TheDarkIsReading #TheShortestDay