Perhaps one of my favourite days of the year, the Winter Solstice. I understand the joy it brought Pagans living in the cold, dark northern regions and the promise it holds of brighter and warmer days. I always feel like I’ve accomplished something when I make it to this day with my humour still intact.
I have been busy craft sales and preparing for Christmas since the AGM and will be until Christmas day and then…a rest and a rejuvenate before a busy spring.
I make chocolate turtles, peppermint and skor bark, short bread cookies, butter tarts, nuts and bolts and always a new treat for each of my kids and grandkids “stockings” each year (hot chocolate bombs are always a hit). It’s my tradition for them. What are some of your Christmas traditions?
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Besides being confused that none of the questions on the referendum are binding or really addressing any meaningful issues for Albertans (pension, tax collection, policing, equalization), I am confused about the No to the nine crowd. The left is owned by the unions, the teachers union, the nurses unions. The teachers complain incessantly about class sizes and the English as a second language kids and special needs kids. Nurses complain about how busy and how overrun they are in hospital and how healthcare needs to be protected - all concerns deeply impacted by immigration … AND YET… they want to say No to the Nine. So they want to whine but they don’t really want to solve the root cause of the problem that impacts them every day. Nothing drives me crazier than a person who wants to vent and identify problems without any commitment to finding a solution.
What confuses me is to be so blinded by your need to disagree with the conservatives that you would not even think thru the ...