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Happy Winter Solstice
« on: December 21, 2011, 08:37:40 PM »
For us "Northerners" today is the shortest day of the year. From tomorrow on the days are going to get longer every day.

And since I won't be around much over the next days I also wish all of you a Merry Christmas! :)




Also: Happy second day of Hanukkah, if we have Jews around here. :)
« Last Edit: December 21, 2011, 08:45:27 PM by DJ Doena »
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Re: Happy Winter Solstice
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2011, 01:36:56 AM »
From tomorrow on the days are going to get longer every day.

Bummer.
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Re: Happy Winter Solstice
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2011, 06:23:35 AM »
DJ, thank you for the wish and may I echo it to all our members.

Since my wife is affected with SAD, we celebrate the Winter Solstice.
We usually build a bonfire to ward off the cold and darkness and
dance around it in celebration.
I often think of the Duids at Stonehenge in a similar celebration.
Unfortunately, she is down in Phoenix at her fathers. I will join her tomorrow.
Lack of timely information from her sister kept me from traveling with her.
I could not get the time off to travel with her at the same time.
I will fly out of Seattle tomorrow after I get off work to join her.
We go down there annually to spend Christmas with her father who is 87 this year.
He is diabetic and needs constant monitoring. Her sister is caring for him and my wife
makes frequent trips down there to give her sister a break from the caregiving.
Although he is no more a pagen than we are, he enjoys the celebration
as much as we do. We will celebrate a day late this year.

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Re: Happy Winter Solstice
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2011, 03:39:46 PM »
Capriccio (HU 1969, Zoltán Huszárik)
Give it a little time. There will be snowmen.

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Re: Happy Winter Solstice
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2011, 07:50:57 PM »
Well. I can't sugar coat this. That, Matthias, was possibly the most annoying thing I have ever seen.  :tease: I'm starting to think that maybe Hungarian film is not my thing. At all. I would rather watch ten musicals in a row!  :suicide:

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Re: Happy Winter Solstice
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2011, 10:45:12 PM »
I'm starting to think that maybe Hungarian film is not my thing. At all.

Poor Jon. As for me, after Red Psalm and Szindbád, I just got Second Run's Jancsó Collection a couple of days ago. And my Top 10 of 2011 contains two Hungarian films.

I would rather watch ten musicals in a row!

Well, you've already seen Red Psalm, so how about Kornél Mundruczó's Johanna next, a contemporary Hungarian film opera? (IMDb, Trailer)
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Re: Happy Winter Solstice
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2011, 01:44:39 PM »
And since I won't be around much over the next days

I'm back again and here to stay! :)
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