The Holiday Season: Today

Today many of us yearn to make the holiday season
more meaningful, more loving, perhaps more spiritual.

Candlegrove traces the winter holiday season daily from Thanksgiving through Epiphany.

`December 29, 2007`

It's the fourth day of Kwanzaa, the seven-day African-American holiday celebration. Today's principle is UJAMAA — cooperative economics.

It's also my birthday. I'm awfully glad I wasn't born in Greece during the Dark Ages.

`Tips for the day`

The Feast of Fools was a part of medieval Yuletide celebrations. It derives from Saturnalia. The normal order of things was reversed, and games, masquerades and forfeits were a part of the festivities. Great concept for a holiday party!

Read more about the historical Feast of Fools.

If your holiday celebration depends on knowing sunrise and/or sunset times for winter solstice or any other day in your location, find it online at the U.S. Naval Observatory. The database covers 22,000 US locations. For world locations, you'll need your latitude and longitude.

This site also lists solstices and equinoxes through 2020. You'll need to convert to your time zone from Universal Time.

Wassail

Everything you could possibly want to know about one ancient holiday tradition, gathered together in one jolly Web site The Web's Wassail Epicenter!

Kwanzaa Links

The Official Kwanzaa Website
Some beautiful Kwanzaa cybercards
Kwanzaa recipes

Inner Christmas

From counselor and writer Lynn Jericho, ideas for Inner Christmas — a meaningful and enriching process of self-reflection from December 25 to January 6. Sign up for daily emails at her site.