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[wolfnowl]

Happy Holidays!! - M&M's Musings

From our house to yours, we wish you a safe and happy Holiday Season, and a New Year filled with as much love, joy, adventure, peace, excite

From our house to yours, we wish you a safe and happy Holiday Season, and a New Year filled with as much love, joy, adventure, peace, excitement and prosperity as you can handle!

[utterhomestucktrash]

Late New Year's Piece from me and Stampa 💞🐾💋 I hope u guys are excited for this new year ! I definitely am !!!! 🥰🥰🥰

[scotianostra]

Fare Well is a new poem by Jackie Kay that bids farewell to 2020 and wishes a better year for 2021

Narrated by David Tennant and others, Fare Well underscores the UK’s largest swarm drone display, recorded in the Scottish Highlands and cut to spectacular views above Edinburgh.

Part One of Fare Well looks at the year gone by – the funerals and weddings cancelled, the griefs and despairs which have been collective, with a feeling that the world has become a village.

Written by Scots Makar Jackie Kay the verse includes words inspired by the likes of Burns......

"This air has heather and malt on its breath

as it sighs, puffed oot after a year of death,

under the blue mask of its flag. The Saltire’s

been a warning cross. Dinny come too near."

[kunoichi96]

Goodbye and Good Riddance 2020

Goodbye and Good Riddance 2020

At midnight tonight, this horrific year will end. The bad stuff will most likely continue, but at least 2020 will be over. 2020 has been a rotten year. There is no getting away from that. It has been a year filled with death, dread and destruction. It seems that the news just got worse each day. My personal life was a rollercoaster this year. From the highs of getting a wonderful new job,…

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[thethistlegirl]

Growing up with Granda Hamish, the biggest holiday Robin always looked forward to in the midwinter season was Hogmany, the Scottish celebration of the new year. In Scotland, Hogmany has traditionally been a more celebrated holiday than Christmas, especially when the Scottish people embraced Protestant beliefs and shunned anything that appeared connected to Catholic ritual, including most holidays. For the Scottish Seelie fae, Hogmany is a holiday that recalls the time when they were accepted and embraced by Highland culture, called upon to banish evil from the land for another year. Fae Hogmany traditions are slightly different from human ones, but Robin and Hamish always practiced a blend of them. From "saining" or blessing the house with river water and a branch of burning juniper, which both wards off evil creatures and helped to reinforce the magic of the house itself, to having Cody as the "first footer" every year after they met him, Robin has always enjoyed the human side of the holiday along with the fae rituals and magic for good fortune in the coming year. Robin's favorite of the fae rituals is the burning of a log on which reminders of the painful parts of the old year have been placed, such as a strand of hair from a deceased loved one, or a drop of blood that represents injury. After the log has burned, the fae spread the ashes on their hands and faces, recite a spell for the turning of pain to beauty, and then wash with clean water and begin their new year's celebrations. #meetthecharactersmonday #amwriting #writersofinstagram #magic&silver #holidays #hogmany https://www.instagram.com/p/B6tLiLpgo7P/?igshid=1ojbs2capa3o3

[froggiestfacts]

everyone who reblogs this before New Years gets a frog !!

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[genoacedo]

Happy New Year Everyone!!! 🌟🎊🍾2⃣0⃣1⃣8⃣ 🎉✨🎊