Happy Winter Solstice - 2012

Anybody notice the world didn't end?

Autumn has ended however. Now each day gets a tad longer. This is actually my happiest celebration day because it represents the bottom. No where to go but up!

Unfortunately it is cloudy out this morning. The sun came out for a bit yesterday and I had hopes that we might have a clear morning in the Pacific Northwest today. When it is clear I drive out to a lookout point near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and watch the sunrise behind Mt. Rainier. From that vantage point the sun comes up directly behind the mountain and the brilliant rays of light form an incredibly beautiful aura around the mountain.When the sun peeks over the exact peak of the mountain it provides a brilliant crown to that majestic massif.

Alas, this morning cloudy skies. I have seen this phenomenon exactly three times in all the years I've been living here. So, rare and beautiful, makes it a valuable experience.

I hope this Solstice finds you all feeling better about the future. True it won't be the future we all grew up believing would come to pass. It is a future full of challenges to be sure. But as the days get longer here in the Northern Hemisphere, perhaps our perception of what the future could be will brighten as well. For my friends in the Southern Hemisphere, well you still have a number of months to enjoy longer days. Make the most of them.

George

 

Comments

[Joseph Ormond]

Happy Winter Solstice to you too! Always enjoy your blog. Would like to see that view.

[Tom]

All the best George! Please keep up the systems approach to the collapse - maybe tie it all together and show how it will possibly continue a bit more rapidly in the coming year(s). This may take a while since there are so many systems to connect: environment (which itself has many systems); economy (jobs, wages, the end of growth, fiat currencies, eg.); resource depletion (so many including species we rely on); food production; ocean dynamics (including acidification, overfishing and pollution); nuclear, microwave and cosmic radiation; earthquakes and volcanic effects to name a few from which to start. i appreciate not only your take on the bottleneck leading to NTE, but those of all the commentators.

i'd just like to comment that Rachel Carson's Silent Spring event may happen sooner than we think.

[Molly]

Happy Holidays to you, George, and a heartfelt "thank-you" for the time and trouble you take to share your thoughtful musings with the rest of us out here in cyber-land!

[sharonsj]

I agree with Tom. This isn't a one-day doomsday, this is a slow slide into another age of mankind (should we survive).

[Tom]

"i feel funny . . "

http://enenews.com/almost-entire-ground-level-northern-hemisphere-covered-radioactive-fission-product-after-311-study-impact-fukushima-radioxenon-releases-worldwide-xe-133-background-be-investigated-graphic

[Manolo]

LOL
"Anybody notice the world didn't end?"
you should add "Not Yet"

Time's up, that is what the so called "Mayan Calender" really tells us...The Arctic Bombshell ticks, no stopping this one, and it can happen anytime, this year, the next, it will happen.

[Tom]

Manolo:

http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-update/

We're circling the drain.