Oops!

Lo siento....I don't know what I was thinking yesterday when I said that the winter solstice meant equal day and equal night. Yikes. I must have been thinking about the Equinoxes.
So, this is a correction. The winter solstice, el solsticio del invierno quiere decir que el día, o sea, la luz del día es la más corta, the shortest day, and we experience the longest night or darkness.

Metaphorically speaking, what does it all mean? The shortest day, the longest night? Hibernation. Hibernación. That's what we should be doing, hibernating, like the chipmunks and the bears. Well, I don't mean literally go to sleep for the winter, just slow down if you will, take time to really look at the sky, the earth as it changes, the sun, the moon (Where is she these days?) El cuerpo necesita un descanso también y el frío es buena oportunidad de hacer todo un poquito más tranquilo. No ha nevado todavía, los días han estado preciosos, el clima no tempestuoso para nada........así que hay que disfrutar estos días cortos y estas noches largas porque ahora la Tierra empieza su cambio alargando los días y acortando las noches.

I went out again to see the sun rise and this time the sky was clear and the sun rose in perfect alignment between the two boulders as I stood on the flat rock across the field. Some ancient indigenous peoples knew all about the earth's movements and created this look-out point or healing sacred rock for all I know. It was like looking back into the past and present at the same time. So I uploaded the photo I took just an hour and a half ago. Ah, technology. Para que tuvieran una idea. You get the idea, it was an amazing moment....and right here within walking distance from my house.

My apologies for yesterday's mistake.

Have a great day.

Soy Lorena
12/22/06

Winter Solstice

El solsticio del invierno....when the day is the same length as the night. This is a time when we should be in perfect balance. But are we? No hubo sol en la mañana, la nubes taparon todo y no salió mi sol hasta la tarde, ay, pero qué tarde, qué sol y qué puesta del sol (exclamation point here). El cielo tenía nubes que estallaban en "llamas" teñidas de un color tan inusitado que no encuentro nombre. ¿Color albaricoque? ¿Chabacano? ¿Anaranjado-durazno? Peach, apricot, orange, flaming orange........I don't know, maybe it was its own special color without name, sans nom, sin nombre...heaven's color. There was so much to see, to absorb, and then night fell as it tends to do.
And that was the day. It began in darkness and ended in darkness and what I want to know is, was I there? Am I here? Where is here? ¿Dónde está aquí? Si hago caso a mi mente, pues, estoy en México, pero mi cuerpo está acá en Nueva Inglaterra, este terreno frío. In my dreams during the night I am in "fantasy land." ¿Verdad? Where is the dream world? Where is cyberspace? I have heard we exist in several dimensions at the same time. Well, now I'm beginning to believe it. My head, my dreams, my words in cyberspace, my body can all be in different places at the same time. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh(signo de admiración).

Well, I was intending to talk about something else, heh, heh, but you know how it is, I never know what I'm going to say until I say it. ;-)

So.....hoy es el solsticio y me acordé de un cuento para niños acerca de un ratón llamado Federico que en vez de guardar comida para el invierno, él guarda los colores. Los otros ratones lo regañan porque para ellos Federico es perezoso, no trabaja. Pasa el tiempo y llega el invierno. Al principio todos están contentos comiendo la comida que tenían guardada, pero después se acaba la comida y los días se ponen grises y fríos y los ratones empiezan a deprimirse. Entonces, Federico saca sus colores y los comparte con todos los ratones y todos se animan y así aguantan el resto del invierno.

So the moral of the story is that every job is as important as every other job. We need artists as well as doctors, dancers and bankers, musicians and carpenters, hotel administrators and insurance salespeople, waiters and actors, usually waiter/actor combo. We all have a place in this universe.

That's what I was thinking about on this winter solstice day.

Feliz solsticio. Happy Solstice.

Soy Lorena
12/21/06