This is the day my family will celebrate together this year. My grown children are home; we’ll feast, exchange gifts in a chaotic fashion, and play an epic DnD quest based very loosely on A Child’s Christmas in Wales.

Happy festivities to all, however you may or may not celebrate!

looking forward to the gaining of daylight, even as the cold weather has closed in around us.

Quote from a Ruth Pelham song that’s running through me this solstice evening. I have hit the wall in terms of socializing, and am not going anywhere to celebrate the longest night or the dawn after it, but it is warming me to know that I have many friends enjoying each other’s company in other places, where I would be welcome if I had enough energy to travel.

here’s a cornucopia of long long nights

Oh well. Temper tantrum meltdown time.

I think the stress is getting to me

trying hard to enter the festive spirit

Kinda wishing I could hide in the weeds till the holidays are over

the inner and outer me of holiday fatigue

In the thick of Welcome Yule! performances and after-party pub sings, lacking in time and energy for much else beyond that and my regular jobs.