Happy Yule!

Yule Reflection - December 21, 2025

I was up about 50 minutes or so before sunrise this morning, so I sat on the couch wrapped in a blanket I’d made, and spent that time in contemplation of Yuletide, of this moment where we cease contraction and start stretching outward again as the days grow longer from here. It will be cold, and it will take until Imbolc to notice the quickening of the year, but this is the moment the tide turns.

I enjoyed this hour spent in silence, watching the light slowly enter the sky. It’s grey and cloudy, so it wasn’t a spectacular sunrise, but the sun returned nonetheless. It has been dark, and this year has been difficult personally and community-wide. But the Wheel of the Year reminds us that change is a constant, that where we are is not where we’ll be forever. Later today, I’ll build gingerbread houses with loved ones and feel warmed by connections, but I needed this moment to rest and let my mind reach out to greet the coming dawn. As the sunlight grows, I want both. More time for joy, more time for contemplation. To let go of what causes stress and find deeper ways of living my days in rhythm with the changing of the sun and the moon, the seasons and the days. In many ways, that means resisting and working around the world as it is, to make it kinder and more humane for everyone, to let us all be able to live at the pace we choose instead of breaking ourselves trying to keep pace with the inhumane demands of the present moment.

#wheeloftheyear #Pagan

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a DEMOCRAT from Michigan, has proposed a sweeping economic relief package that could, by one estimate, lower U.S. poverty by 42 percent.

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/rep-tlaibs-economic-dignity-for-all-agenda-would-bring-economic-security-for-millions/

#Nursing #Covid #Police #2020

From 2020

Israel is a rogue genocidal state. It has no sense of humanitarian duty. The West has also lost any humanitarian duty it had in failing to intervene to stop the genocide.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/24/gaza-famine-declaration-israel-humanitarian-duty-analysis

UK Ambassador to the UN Barbara Woodward says, the Israeli government is starving the Palestinian people, and there is no food left in Gaza.

Children are dying, while Israel is killing aid workers.

When I grew up the term “Jewish genocide” was taught in Danish schools, to tell us that never again would the world stand idly by while people were exterminated.

Look at us now.