Advent Calendar day 5/6/7 - following the light

Sunrise - 9:02am

Sunset- 15:10pm

 Hello everybody !

the last few days have been hectic and busy here in my dwelling. The weather went from joyfully snowing to warm rainy and wet, over and over again. Days are still getting shorter and shorter, but the solstice is getting closer and so the mood is quite good. The neighbourhood, but really the whole little town, is now alight with the traditional white lights on windows, trees and barns. Walking around in the dark looks pretty much as walking in a living fairytale. So I thought you might like to see how it is like to have a stroll around here, these days.

Beautiful isn't it ? This is my favourite time of the year, even if I like every season for their own peculiarity, the feelings arising during the Solstice/Christmas time are just so primordial, in a way. I think that when people consider this time just a merely commercial or religious matter, it is because they don't have a strong enough connection with the nature, with mother earth. Here, where seasons are dramatically different, where the light, or the lack of it, caraterize every period of the year, well the return of light is celebrated as a relief, as an amazing moment, no matter your spiritual path or you holiday traditions. The reality is, that this IS a magical, incredible moment in which our spirit get new energy to face a new beginning. 

Tomorrow Finland celebrates the Indipendence day, 103 years old, if I am not wrong. So please, my dear finnish readers, accept my best wishes for your hard earned freedom <3