{"id":9429,"date":"2016-12-22T21:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=9429"},"modified":"2016-12-22T21:16:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:16:22","slug":"greetings-on-december-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2016\/12\/greetings-on-december-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings on December 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"amaryllis-ellen-wade-beals-2016\"<\/a>The darkest day of the year is behind us — each day now there will be a little more light.<\/p>\n

Have you had a harder time gearing up for the holidays? Feeling less than festive?<\/p>\n

Sometimes we miss those not with us most during this time and we are more emotionally vulnerable than on other days. Or, if you lose someone around this time, you are especially tender.<\/p>\n

I always appreciate poetry that makes me feel better about loss, that helps me process it. In October I featured “Death Is Nothing At All” <\/strong>by Henry Scott-Holland<\/strong><\/a> and some readers remarked on it.<\/p>\n

Today I present “Remember”<\/strong> by Christina Rosetti. <\/strong>Like the poem by Scott-Holland, “Remember” speaks in the voice of the dead. When\u00a0 I read it, I don’t so much as think about it in terms of my feelings but how I would like those I leave behind to feel.
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I also like that is a secular poem. On my atheist days I can take comfort in the solace the poem supplies.<\/p>\n

Peace, love, and solace<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Remember<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember me when I am gone away,
\nGone far away into the silent land;
\nWhen you can no more hold me by the hand,
\nNor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.
\nRemember me when no more day by day
\nYou tell me of our future that you plann’d:
\nOnly remember me; you understand
\nIt will be late to counsel then or pray.
\nYet if you should forget me for a while
\nAnd afterwards remember, do not grieve:
\nFor if the darkness and corruption leave
\nA vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
\nBetter by far you should forget and smile
\nThan that you should remember and be sad.<\/p>\n

Christina Rosetti<\/strong><\/p>\n

From: Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems<\/em><\/strong>. Christina Rosetti. 1879.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Looking to the heavens \u00a9 Ellen Wade Beals, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The darkest day of the year is behind us — each day now there will be a little more light. Have you had a harder time gearing up for the holidays? Feeling less than festive? Sometimes we miss those not with us most during this time and we are more emotionally vulnerable than on other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3152,3156,3155,60,3149,3151,12,445,235,3150,3078,648,39,13,1621,3153,3154,16,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-9429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-death-is-nothing-at-all","8":"tag-looking-to-the-heavens","9":"tag-amaryllis","10":"tag-appreciation","11":"tag-christina-rosetti","12":"tag-death-at-christmas","13":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","14":"tag-goblin-market","15":"tag-grief","16":"tag-grief-during-the-holidays","17":"tag-henry-scott-holland","18":"tag-meaning-of-life","19":"tag-photography","20":"tag-poetry","21":"tag-remember","22":"tag-secular","23":"tag-secular-poem-on-grief","24":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","25":"tag-weighed-words","26":"entry","27":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9433,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions\/9433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}