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loreleyjacob

Banishing Darkness or Why I Love the Winter Holidays

Dec 19, 2009 19:15

I love the winter holidays, all of them. This time of year reminds feels enchanting and wild, with Hannukah candles at home, Christmas lights in every window in downtown Haifa, and Eid al-Adha fires in the Carmel mountain villages.

I love fire, and my soul makes no distinction between the variants of the different religions in the area. All lights ( Read more... )

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frualeydis December 19 2009, 20:32:30 UTC

Beautiful! Here, which even isn't very far north in Sweden it is only light between 9 am and 3 pm this time of the year and we really need the light. I guess that's why almost everybody had several electrical candlesticks with seven candles (gee, I wonder why? ;)) in their windows and usually also a star. I don't have the candlesticks and unlike everybody else I only have the star on when it's someone at home and awake, because it's such a waste of energy. But I like switching it on in the dark mornings when we're gettign ready to leave for school and work, to make it a little less dark. Even if it's a christian symbol ( ... )