Imaginations are everywhere.  Dreams.  Stories.
I imagine a lot of things.    However…. one thing that is factual is today’s date.  Well… sort of.  I mean… humans devised the calendar to keep track of the days, weeks, months, years.  So, I guess that is a little imagined too.

But this is the day of the Winter Solstice.  A thing of fact…. and of legend.

To define it…. a solstice is either of  two times in the year.  It could be the summer solstice or the winter solstice.   These two days occur when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.

Now….  at times…. we humans can be pretty smart and observant…. and imaginative.  The earliest people on Earth noticed things.  They knew that the sun’s path across the sky…. the length of daylight….. changes.    They built monuments such as Stonehenge in England ….. or, for example, at Machu Picchu in Peru ….  to follow the sun’s yearly progress.

And the winter solstice has been celebrated as a part of this.  The shortest day of the year.

But since the earliest of times… there have been stories… and legends… and traditions…. passed from one generation to the next.

And with that…  I give you the Yeti.   Or….. as  some of us like to call him  …. The Abominable Snowman .

Now, there have been sightings, time and time again….. of this Yeti… which is an apelike, cryptic creature.  He is said to inhabit the Himalaya region of Nepal and Tibet.  The Solstice is a huge “sighting” day for the Yeti.

I don’t know…. I guess I just think… who is to say it isn’t true?  The story, the legend, has carried on for hundreds, and hundreds of years…

So, with this Winter Solstice… I say embrace the things you believe in.  Our power lies in the power of the mind.  How we think.  How we believe.  Yes.  During this sacred day of Winter…. I say… Embrace the Yeti.  Find the truth in the Big Snowman. Believe in the Magic…  and the Magic will believe in YOU.

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”   — Chuck Palahniuk