Winter Festival was celebrated last night at school
Every year at midwinter, all the primary kids carry little glowing lanterns and snake their way through the darkness into the big circle. Songs are sung to the beat of the drum Dark night, starry night...New beginnings. Like all previous Winter Festivals - we’ve been to a few now - it is on a freezing cold night, under a million glinting stars. And it’s very beautiful. The return of the light.
But this year our son is no longer in primary school. No lantern, no longer so engaged; but roaming loosely with his friends in the darkness, appearing periodically to tell us how bored he is. SIGH...We had to forbid him from bringing the soccer ball.
Though we all agreed afterwards, F too, that the flaming hot air balloon lanterns released by the year eight kids were cool. They wafted up, fiery and silent, and away into the black sky. Magical. And on the way home in the car , F was humming Dark night, starry night...
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| (Winter Festival 2008 at Noosa Pengari school) |
2 comments:
A good winter festival is a wondrous thing. Yours looks particularly wondrous with those enormous floating lanterns!
I've written a sort of solstice homage too, homage to your blog as an "inspiring sun", but it seems that it is winter-winter over there right now :-)
I thought that you wouldn't mind my tampering with your blog's name though:
http://pencilandbox.blogspot.com/2011/07/chocolate-afternoons-weed-nights-who.html
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