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Ramblinactivist 2022/1, 1st January 2022

Another dawn, another frost, and hence cause for another walk. Except this time there’s an added impetus: The Winter Solstice.

I saw the sunrise yesterday morning, but was detained by events later that day and couldn’t go out to greet it. Out well before dawn this morning, the scene was immeasurably better as I was greeted with clear skies and a good frost.

For me, Solstice is the beginning of the year. The landscape all around, now cold and asleep, will wake in the coming weeks to give a new Spring, another Summer, and the promise of an Autumn with a harvest of fruits and seeds to consume over the next Winter. Our ancient ancestors knew that, and marked its significance. It’s such a pity that our rational society, and the globalised commodity culture of supermarkets, gives so little weight to the continuing significance of this cycle to our present-day and likely future existence.

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