Merry Christmas, Blessed Yule, whatever you celebrate, I wish you a bountiful 2025

Merry Christmas, blessed yule, rebirth of the light (in longer days now) or whatever you celebrate. About to wrap 2024 and starting to brainstorm about new goals and resolutions. It doesn't matter if this year was not as I expected, I love this feeling of "reset" and already focusing my intention on changes to make 2025 prosperous (and hopefully less dystopian than 2024). Here some candid photos and a little recording from my phone filmed two days ago.

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Me a few days ago, the first day of winter

As I have mentioned before, The saddest Christmas tale ever is Andersen's "The fir tree" , left to wither in the attic after the holiday season cheer and then chopped and burnt next Spring. It traumatized me as a kind and that is why I only use yule twig as evergreen token and I light a yule candle as a symbol of the light 🕯️ returning.

I updated my special YULE / WINTER / CHRISTMAS youtube playlist with Winter songs. If in the mood for some seasonal music (some originals, some traditionals and some from movies) I've put them together. Cold Winter will be on streaming on my Spotify very soon and next Xmas I will compile some of the traditional songs I have done onto a special seasonal EP

What are your favourite xmas songs? Here some of the ones I've made including Silent Night, In the Bleak Midwinter and other traditionals

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfu7TASV8SHXgcvToo0ZgXrdJ5XYsdGZ1&si=YDrx2HjNsHrI6nUj

And if for any reason the holiday season and year's end feels heavy, know that my ❤️ is with you. Whether you're facing stress, loss, financial challenges, health struggles, or feeling alone, remember, not all Christmases look the same. Hope this comforts (Original carol, live) A live version (from Faeriecon live). Imiss performing live, and though my connectivity is lacking I'll try to