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My Winter Solstice card in 1986 included portraits of my three pets--Naomi, Iris, and Winslow. We're looking out over the fields of a then-undeveloped Pennwood. #greetings #greeting #wintergreeting #solsticegreetings #holiday #winterholiday #winterholidays #Yule #ShabeYalda #DongZhi #Soyal #Saturnalia #Christmas #Hanukkah #Kwanzaa #StLucysDay #hogmanay #winter #celebration #wintercelebration #wintercelebrations #flamingo #flamingos #santahat #santahats #lawnornaments #lawnornament
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Heya, my #trans siblings. Today's question is brought to you by the festival of lights:
What winter holiday traditions do you happen to follow?
#QuestionOfTheDay #hannukah #christmas #kwanzaa #wintersolstice #saturnalia #stlucysday
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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, …
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For #StLucysDay a detail of #Crivelli’s Saints Anthony Abbot & Lucy, c. 1470.
St Lucy holds her own eyes before her, an attribute variously associated with the brutality of her martyrdom or an act of self mutilation to dissuade a suitor.
The Scandinavian tradition of wearing a crown of light on her feast day connects to a different story, in which she wore a wreath of candles to carry supplies to Roman Christians hiding in the catacombs.