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Solstice Thought

Inspired by Jesse Paris Smith's "Happy Winter Solstice" post from this morning

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Hal Gill
Dec 22, 2025
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The Winter Solstice has indeed arrived as of 10:03 AM Eastern Time. It’s now a little over 12 hours later and I finally find time to sit down and respond to:

Jesse Paris Smith
Happy Winter Solstice
Good morning! Happy Sunday. Today at 10:03am EST is the exact moment of the winter solstice. What will you do in that moment? What will you do this evening? On the darkest day of the year, we celebrate light, and so we can have our own private celebrations, our own personal festivals of light, and this can mean anything we like…
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4 months ago · 117 likes · 39 comments · Jesse Paris Smith

At the moment of solstice, I was likely in the shower. I felt it would be a reset to my mood which has found me - how should I put it? Inward….not down, just withdrawn.

I then took a walk down to th…

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