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Merry Met Everyone!

This year will be my first time celebrating Yule. Since I don't have a fireplace, I will be getting a pine log and drilling three holes in it for a red, green and white candle. Since, traditionally, a Yule log is burned and then part of it is saved to start the fire on the next year's Yule log my questions are thus: 1) When exactly IS winter solstice this year? 2) Does it matter what time on Solstice I light the candles and do I let them burn for 12 hours like the Yule… Continue

For a couple of years now, maybe even longer, but as a shadow of feeling, I have felt the need to prepare for difficult times. Not just economically, but whether I could survive physical hadship, feeling the need to put in a large garden and learn to can, stockpiling supplies, learn how to handle a gun, etc. This has always been in the back of my mind, and not really a focus of my life. However, the feeling has been getting stronger as of late. Then, this past 6 months I listened to a talk show… Continue