tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790700443650289835.post1961146118717788547..comments2023-07-27T03:56:00.170-05:00Comments on Uncommon Courage: Wintertime Blues and What's ImportantLynne Bratcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05555346149209638144noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790700443650289835.post-9244070550198678552012-12-26T23:06:58.572-06:002012-12-26T23:06:58.572-06:00Wonderful posting! I appreciate your return to e...Wonderful posting! I appreciate your return to essential things, and the irony that in our paroxysms of holiday giving we lose sight of why the tradition of giving began in the first place.<br /><br />"Yule" anticipated the end of darkness, with giving of the remaining harvest to celebrate the coming return of light. Think of ancient peoples who saw their growing season over, their harvest over, and their days growing shorter and colder by the day. When the growing darkness finally ceased the hope of brighter days must have made them happier than Barry White in a hot tub.<br /><br />To renew our focus on essential things we must first discard the banal trappings that substitute for real celebration. Thanks for the posting, and your warm refocusing on the things in our lives that matter.<br /><br />"The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off, why should I? Light up the darkness." ~B. Marley<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com