A letter to the Sun

[gurdymonkey]

Dear Sun,

If it is true that you are indeed no more than a glowing ball of gas, you really did not need me to stay up all night just to make sure you continue to do your glowy, burny thing.

In which case, it is also true that you cannot possibly care whether or not we insignificant humans got to see you emerge from behind a wall of clouds. Nor could you be moved by the sleepy drumming or the random (and were they EVER random) assortment of songs sung in your honor from an inaudible 93 million miles away. Photos courtesy of didjiman .

And so you cannot possibly be offended by the fact that in the middle of the modern pagan anthems and the SF filk and the obligatory rendition of "Here Comes the Sun" that I yanked "Ave Maris Stella" out of my sleep encrusted neurons and turned it into a croaky "Alleluia" with craptastic breath control.

For you, O Sun, were not the one who demanded that the car radio must be shut off because it so rudely emitted an innocuous Christmas melody with Evil Christian Associations That Permanently Ruined Your Life.

An invocation of the light is an invocation of the light. There is no wrong way.

Comments

[sasha-khan.livejournal.com]

Has it come to the point where this slave of God, this MUSLIM, must explain things to those people who should understand this all too well, and yet by a demonstrably large mathematical margin - do not?

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Sad, isn't it? As the daughter of a German Jew and an Irish Catholic, I learned very early on that despite what the nuns were telling me, there is no wrong way. The spirit is where one finds it and it's a crying shame people have to fight about which way is best.

[sasha-khan.livejournal.com]

There is a tradition in Mevlevi Sufism that ALL religions are half-wrong.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

As long as Mevlevi Sufism is half wrong too, that works for me. ;-D

We are a presumptuous bunch of primates, aren't we?

[cayswann.livejournal.com]

I cannot tell you how cool it was, within a 24-hour period, watch the sunrise in Ireland on the internet (although watch the actual rays of sunshine enter the fancy winter-solstice-only window from last year's tape, because it was misty in Ireland this year), host a party in my home, light Channukah candles, and open Solstice/Channukah/Christmas gifts with friends.