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Dear Italian Shoemaker,

Thank you.

Brigid

RIP Harold Pinter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter

RIP Eartha Kitt

Merry Christmas

love dog

Nameless you above me

Come lay me low and love me

This lonely little love dog

That no one knows the name of

Curse me out in free verse

Wrap me up and reverse this

Patience is a virtue

Until it's silence burns you

And something slow

Has started in me as

Shameless as an ocean

Mirrored in devotion

Something slow

Has sparked up in me

As dog cries for a master

Sparks are whirling faster

Shake Me, I Rattle

"Shake me, I rattle
Squeeze me, I cry,
Please take me home
And love me."
-Cristy Lane

Longest Night

Observances

3.1 Amaterasu celebration, Requiem of the Dead (7th century Japan)
3.2 Beiwe Festival (Sámi of Northern Fennoscandia)
3.3 Choimus, Chaomos (Kalash of Pakistan)
3.4 Christmas, Natalis Domini (4th century Rome, 11th century England, Christian)
3.5 Deuorius Riuri (Gaul)
3.6 Deygān (Zoroastrian)
3.7 DōngZhì Festival, Tōji Festival (East Asia, Vietnam, and Buddhist)
3.8 Goru (Dogon of Mali)
3.9 Hogmanay (Scotland)
3.10 Inti Raymi (Inca, Peru)
3.11 Junkanoo, Jonkonnu, John Canoe (West Africa, Bahamas, Jamaica, 19th-century North Carolina)

3.12 Karachun (Ancient Western Slavic)
3.13 Koleda, Коляда, Sviatki, Dazh Boh (Ancient Eastern Slavic and Sarmatian)
3.14 Lenæa, Brumalia (Ancient and Hellenistic Greece, Roman Kingdom)
3.15 Lucia, Feast of St. Lucy (Ancient Swedish, Scandinavian Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)
3.16 Makara Sankranti (India and Nepal, Hindu)
3.17 Meán Geimhridh, Celtic Midwinter (Celtic, Ancient Welsh, Neodruidic)
3.17.1 Mummer's Day (Celtic, Cornish)
3.17.2 Wren day (Celtic, Irish, Welsh, Manx)
3.17.3 Alban Arthan (Neodruidic)

3.18 Midvinterblót (Swedish folk religion)
3.19 Modranicht, Modresnach (Germanic)
3.20 Perchta ritual (Germania, Alps)
3.21 Rozhanitsa Feast (12th century Eastern Slavic Russian)
3.22 Shabe Celle, یلدا , Yaldā (2nd millennium BCE Persian, Iranian)
3.23 Sanghamitta Day (Buddhist)
3.24 Saturnalia, Chronia (Ancient Greek, Roman Republic)
3.25 Şeva Zistanê (Kurdish)

3.26 Sol Invictus Festival (3rd century Roman Empire)

3.27 Soyal (Zuni and Hopi of North America)
3.28 Tekufat Tevet (Jewish)
3.29 Wayeb (Maya)
3.30 Yule, Jul, Jól, Joul, Joulu, Jõulud, Géol, Geul (Viking Age, Northern Europe, and Germanic cultures)
3.30.1 Jul (Germanic Neopaganism)
3.30.2 Yule (Wiccan)
3.31 Zagmuk, Sacaea (Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian, Babylonian)
3.32 Ziemassvētki (Latvian, Baltic, Romuva)

join us

"If you over-do it, you can seriously hurt yourself."

-Kellyn Plasschaert

clinging Heaven by the hems

O World invisible, we view thee:

O World Intangible, we touch thee:

O World Unknowable, we know thee:

Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!