This year the Winter Solstice falls on Wednesday, December 21^st, and Thom and I are invited to a celebration.  I’m not sure what to expect but we’ve been asked to bring a vegetarian dish for the potluck and I’m guessing there will be candles involved.  At first glance the experience might seem strange, but maybe it shouldn’t be.  In a time when many of us excessively celebrate a old man in a red suit who flies through the air on a sled pulled by magical reindeers, maybe the solstice deserves more attention than we normally offer.  In fact, when I thought about it, I came up with two good reasons all of us might consider celebrating it on a regular basis. [Read more…]