Re: Happy Year 2000!

Hi

We also burn big fires during celebrating midsummer eve - the 23th of June
- than we use to have celebrating to gether in all villages - and we have
what we call 'children-midsummer-wedding' and eat, play and dance and have
fun and end it all by burning a big midsummer fire around midnight ... in
the land of midnightsun! Not midnight sun all over Norway - but also NO
dark at all.

telling you this now because when summer comes there might be time fro
treads like this??? I don't know .. but  as far as I know midsummer is not
celebrated so much as by us in other countries?

I am verrryyyyyyy tired now.......see you later

zzzzzzzz
Arnhild  - Hardanger Norway - + 4 *C rainy ..




At 01:55 PM 1.1.00 EST, Jeanne M. Hannah wrote:
>Arnhild,
>
>Thank you for sharing with us the taking of a war signal and turning it into
>a peace signal. What a wonderfully symbolic and meaningful way to express our
>hopes for this universe in the coming century.
>
>I was reminded by your descriptions of the fire signals of a wonderful summer
>solstice celebration that I was invited to attend by the family I stayed with
>in a farmhouse in Austria -- Lech, if I remember correctly. This was in 1977.
>I was traveling with my 9 1/2 and 4 1/2 year old sons. I spoke German well
>enough to get my automobile repaired at the auto repairwerkstadt so that I
>could drive to the top of the Gross Glockners. [I was proud of that
>accomplishment, having studied with a tutor for 10 weeks prior to taking this
>trip during which I intended to spend the majority of my time in rural areas
>of Germany and Austria -- staying mainly in farmhouses, and expected,
>correctly so, that little English would be spoken.]
>
>The family's neighbors all came, and we sat in a wonderful old arbor in a
>vineyard. Everyone contributed to the food, wine and beer. Noticably missing
>were young men and women from the ages of 16 to 25. Then I was told to look
>across the valley to the mountainside opposite. The young people had climbed
>the mountains and had lit bonfires high up on the mountainsides. They would
>stay there and celebrate the solstice until morning.
>
>I was pleased to be included in this special party -- as a stranger in
>another land.
>
>That this discussion group brings together so many people from so many lands
>is one of its fine features.
>
>Happy New Year to all.
>
>Jeanne Hannah
>
>
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