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We were all Fashionistas in the 1970s, Baby, and don't you forget it! Christmas, 1973. #fashionista #fashionistas #fashion #modernfashion #1970sfashion #fashiontrends #couture #moderncouture #trendy #hipclothes #hipthreads #coolclothes #coolthreads #christmas #xmas #wintersolstice #yule #boxingday #stluciaday #saturnalia #solstice #winter #cold #snowy #streisand #theowlandthepussycat #twentiethcentury #technology #oldtechnology #outdated
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I saved the vintage Coca-Cola ads from some magazines being discarded, and framed them for xmas decor. National Geographic, 1949. #christmas #xmas #holiday #holidays #wintersolstice #wintersolsticeholidays #yule #boxingday #stluciaday #saturnalia #newyear #newyears #newyearseve #vintage #heirloom #vintagead #vintageads #vintageadvertising #tradition #traditional
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The attic of my childhood home was the first interior I designed. My color palette hasn't changed much. 1973. #interior #interiors #interiordesign #interiordesigns #interiordesigner #interiordecoration #interiordecorations #interiordecorating #interiordecorator #1970s #twentiethcentury #1970sfashion #fashion #vintagefashion #vintageclothing #doubledaybookclub #christmas #wintersolstice #christmaseve #holiday #holidays #friends #goodfriends #childhoodfriends #streisand #artwork
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Even though I've been an Atheist over fifty of my seventy-odd years, I still love Christmas Eve with family and friends. Non-believers are allowed to be sentimental about traditions and holidays, too. 1973. #christmas #holiday #holidays #tradition #traditions #sentimental #celebrate #christmaseve #wintersolstice #winterholidays #Yule #Dongzhi #Yalda #Soyal #Saturnalia #StLuciasDay #boxingday #atheist #atheist #atheism #goodwithoutgod #atheistsrock #family #familygathering #familyandfriends
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Is This Anything?
A D&D One-Shot that plays out like a Hallmark Christmas Movie.
In the town of Wickhollow, the wreaths go up a week before Solstice. The winter baking competition has been running since before anyone can remember. The mayor wears a sash. The candle in the window of the oldest house on the main road has been lit every Longest Night for several generations.
Someone in your party has been here before. They lived here, they loved here, they lost here. They left. They swore they'd never come back. But the town has welcomed them back with open arms.
Something is wrong this year. It's not a problem that can be solved by hitting it, but it is certainly the type of problem that will absolutely ruin the Longest Night celebrations if nobody does anything.
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This is the idea of a one-shot that needs player and DM input to fully flesh it out.
What's wrong could be a family feud nobody will say aloud. It could be a recent loss that the town hasn't fully grieved yet. It could be a ritual nobody remembers how to perform. It could be the reason the hometown hero left in the first place, a wrong done to them that still sits unaddressed in the room.
One in the party is the "hometown hero" of sorts. They've returned to the town for the first time in years. Why they've returned could be a recent death in the family. It could be an old love to rekindle. It could be a letter with no return address that somehow found them anyway. It could just be that they were passing through; they swear they were only passing through.
The rest of the party are the quirky and lovable townsfolk. A chimneysweep, always covered in soot. A stablehand who can't escape the smell. An innkeeper who reserved the last room just for the "hero". The child who still believes all of it, completely, without irony.
The climax of the story is not driven by combat, but by a speech, a performance, a small act of community that the "hometown hero" could not have managed at session zero.
And it must start snowing right at the end. That is not a suggestion. The DM does not get a vote on this. It must start snowing.
#iTA #isThisAnything #DnD #OneShot #LongestNight #WinterSolstice #Hallmark
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Ed Herbers – Season Cycle: Winter
#Ambient #cinematic #cold #electronic #instrumental #meditation #solstice #soundtrack #winter #wintermusic #wintersolstice #Cincinnati
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
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Dear Lovely Peeps,
Not what I usually post, but I am thinking of a few of you right now.
For anyone who may need this, know I am wishing you a better morning and more light. 🕯️
The Longest Night
by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat
(aka The Velveteen Rabbi)We all tell ourselves stories
about grief to come.
Anticipating the dark
we think, how can I live
without the sun I turn toward?We wrest what gifts we can
from the dying days.One morning we wake
and the doorway we most dreaded
is behind us.The ice may not recede
for months to come
but day by day
may there be more light.#Light #Poetry #Hope #Solstice #Grief #Grieving #WinterSolstice #RabbiRachelBarenblat
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My beloved Aunt Ida was born in 1899, so was always one year older than the year we were in. Christmas, 1982. #aunt #aunts #relative #relatives #beloved #belovedfamilymember #belovedfamilymembers #family #familymember #extendedfamily #1980s #vintage #1980sfashion #1980sdecor #interiordecoration #decoration #interiors #homedecor #homefashion #christmas #wintersolstice #yule #stluciaday #boxingday #hanukkah #holiday #holidays #memories #happymemory #happymemories #nutcracker #senior
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I lost my best friend to suicide over forty years ago. Treatment for Bipolar, or Manic Depressive Illness, has improved tremendously, but our country still needs far better mental health resources. Christmas, 1982. #friend #friends #friendship #lifelongfriends #lifelongfriendship #christmas #holidays #wintersolstice #christmastree #holidaytree #1980s #suicide #suicideprevention #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #988SuicideandCrisisLifeline #988 #suicideprevention
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Lifelong friend Deb with my first two dogs, Iris and Winslow. Pennwood, Mifflintown. 1982. #dog #dogs #doglover #doglovers #dogphotographer #dogphotography #dogphotographers #friends #friendsship #oldfriend #oldfriends #pennwood #mifflintown #1980s #olddays #twentiethcentury #christmas #wintersolstice #solstice #yule #stluciaday #boxingday #hanakkuh #homemaking #homedecor #1970sfashion #1970sdecor #interiordecoration #interiordecorating #interiordecorator
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One of the oldest known “windows”
Light opening (center of image) above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange.
For a few days around the winter solstice, a ray of light shines through this opening into the chamber at the end of the passage at sunrise.May 2014
#Newgrange #PassageTomb #Boyne #SiAnBhru #CountyMeath #Ireland #Neolithic #Neolithicperiod #wintersolstice #sunrise #solstice #Irland #Neolithikum #Jungsteinzeit #passage #Wintersonnenwende #Sonnenaufgang #FensterFreitag
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Lewistown had a major resurgence of painted holiday windows, this solstice season, and this resident couldn't be happier. HUZZAH! #solstice #wintersolstice #christmas #hanukkah #stluciaday #boxingday #kwanzaa #holiday #holidays #winterholidays #paintedwindows #decorated
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A Dolly Parton Christmas display I designed in my youth, but never built. Watercolor, 2025. #christmas #holiday #holidays #solstice #wintersolstice #yule #stluciaday #boxingday #hanukkah #kwanzaa #celebrate #dollyparton #christmasdisplay #xmasdisplay #holidaycutout #plywood
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Arthur helps Midge to undecorate the tree. #doll #dolls #fashiondoll #fashiondolls #dollcollector #dollcollectors #dollphotographer #dollphotographers #christmas #hanukkah #kwanzaa #stluciaday #boxingday #holidays #yule #solstice #wintersolstice #winterholiday #winterholidays
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Today, we have 30 minutes more daylight than at the #wintersolstice, 22 days ago.
On 26 January, daylight lasts until 5pm. Phew!And on the last day of January, we will have another 58 minutes of daylight. ❤
I don't much like cold, but for me the real joy-killer is darkness. My soul needs lots of #daylight.
Thanks to the Sunrise and Sunset Calculator at https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ for helping me track the light.
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Midge enjoys a holiday visit with Winnie Houyhnhnm and Claus the Goldfish. #doll #dolls #barbie #barbie #fashiondoll #fashiondolls #horses #houyhnhnm #houyhnhnms #gulliverstravels #clausthegoldfish #familyguy #holiday #holidays #solsticeholidays #solstice #wintersolstice
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Sunrise, Sunset, Solstice and Perihelion
I was on the train earlier today when I remembered that we are getting close to the time when Earth reaches its perihelion, i.e. the point in its orbit when it is closest to the Sun. This occurs at 17.15 GMT tomorrow (Saturday 3rd January 2026), in fact. At this time the distance from the Sun’s centre to Earth’s centre will be 147,099,894 km This year, aphelion (the furthest distance from the Sun) is at 18.30 GMT on July 6th 2026 at which point the centre of the Earth will be 512,087,774 km from the centre of the Sun. You can find a list of times and dates of perihelion and aphelion for future years here.
Earth’s elliptical orbit viewed at an angle (which makes it look more eccentric than it is – in reality is very nearly circular).At perihelion the speed of the Earth in its orbit around the Sun is greater than at aphelion (about 30.287 km/s versus 29.291 km/s). This difference, caused by the Earth’s orbital eccentricity, contributes to the difference between mean time and solar time which, among other things, influences the time of sunrise and sunset at the winter solstice that happened a couple of weeks or so ago.
Incidentally, although the Solstice took place on 21st December, it was not until the end of 2025 that we experienced the latest sunrise. The longest day means neither the latest sunrise nor the earliest sunset. The earliest sunset was actually on December 15th in Dublin.
It surprises me how many people think that the existence of the seasons has something to do with the variation of the Earth’s distance from the Sun, thinking that the closer to the Sun we get the warmer the weather will be. The fact that perihelion occurs in the depth of winter should convince anyone living in the Northern hemisphere that this just can’t be the case, as should the fact that it’s summer in the Southern hemisphere while it is winter in the North.
The real reason for the existence of seasons is the tilt of the Earth’s axis of rotation. I used to do a little demonstration with a torch – flashlight to American readers- to illustrate this when I taught first-year astrophysics. If you shine a torch horizontally at a piece of card it will illuminate a patch of the card. Keep the torch at the same distance but tilt the card and you will see the illuminated patch increase in size. The torch is radiating the same amount of energy but in the second case that energy is spread over a larger area than in the first. This means that the energy per unit area incident on the card is decreases when the card is tilted. It is that which is responsible for winter being colder than summer. In the summer the Sun is higher in the sky (on average) than in winter. From this argument you can infer that the winter solstice not the perihelion, is the relevant astronomical indicator of winter.
That is not to say that the shape of the Earth’s orbit has no effect on terrestrial temperatures. It may, for example, contribute to the summer in the Southern hemisphere being hotter than in the North, although it is not the only effect. The Earth’s surface possesses a significant North-South asymmetry: there is a much larger fraction of ocean in the Southern hemisphere, for example, which could be responsible for moderating any differences in temperature due to insolation. The climate is a non-linear system that involves circulating air and ocean currents that respond in complicated ways and on different timescales not just to insolation but to many other parameters, including atmospheric composition (especially the amount of water vapour).
The dates when Earth reaches the extreme points on its orbit (the apsides) are not fixed because of the variations in its orbital eccentricity so, in the short-term, the dates can vary up to 2 days from one year to another. The perihelion distance varies slightly from year to year too; it will be slightly larger next year than this year, for example. There is however a long-term trend for perihelion to occur later in the year. For example, in 1246, the December Solstice (Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere) was on the same day as the Earth’s perihelion. Since then, the perihelion and aphelion dates have drifted by an average of one day every 58 years. This trend will continue, meaning that by the year 6430 the timing of the perihelion and the March Equinox will coincide, although I hope to have retired by then…
#astronomy #ellipticalOrbits #perihelion #solstice #WinterSolstice
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Art, framed as Christmas gifts this year. #art #artwork #artist #framing #frames #gift #gifts #watercolor #watercolors #seascape #flower #flowers #nature #artistslife #christmasgifts #solsticegift #solsticegifts #wintersolstice #holiday #holidays
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Everyone in the Valley of the Dolls is having a wonderful holiday season--no matter which holiday they choose to celebrate. #christmas #xmas #holiday #holidays #newyearseve #hanukkah #stluciaday #boxingday #zunisoyal #solstice #wintersolstice #festivus #christmastree #party
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Last light. Cambridge, December 24th, 2025.
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night dark sky
at breakfast
—dawn on the dog walk#DailyHaikuPrompt (night) #haiku #senryu #poetry #WritingCommunity #Solstice #WinterSolstice
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Doris Weiss Wishman wishes you a Merry Christmas, with lots of cheesecake, from our porch to yours. #christmas #merrychristmas #solstice #wintersolstice #yule #kwanzaa #stluciaday #boxingday #hanukkah #cheesecake #holiday #holidays #newyearsever #happynewyear #christmasday #40s