{"id":7123,"date":"2022-12-18T19:39:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T03:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2024-07-20T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T22:57:51","slug":"winter-solstice-broadcast-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/winter-solstice-broadcast-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice: The Trouble of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, December 2022, three years after the world was turned upside down, The Grief of Life and The Trouble of Christmas are practically members of our family.<\/p>\n

Erin Em says: \u201cIt\u2019s been a year since I\u2019ve seen my father. Just from thinking critically and standing up for freedom of choice as to what I\u2019m allowing into my body, I probably won\u2019t see him alive again.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>You can listen to her entire story in the podcast The Night Shift.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Mother remembers her son, Guy<\/p>\n

\u201cDecember is a heavy month for me and my daughter. We will not be celebrating Christmas this year – maybe never. My son\u2019s official date of death was Dec. 21, 2021, Winter Solstice Day. It’s when they stopped his heart medication with my consent. But I think he “died” on December 5th.\u201d \u00a0<\/em>You can hear her own words in the podcast<\/strong>, 31 days in 2021<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cDo what’s in your heart,\u201d she told me.<\/p>\n

And so we dedicate this podcast to this young man who left the earth too early. And to his mother and sister, who must live without him.<\/p>\n

Guy’s favourite bumper sticker:`“Beam me up, Scottie, there is no intelligent life down here.” <\/strong>One of his favourite quotes by Clarence Darrow:<\/p>\n

“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

What has not changed:<\/em><\/h3>\n

the sun dips into the horizon at 4.16 in the afternoon. As the night deepens,\u00a0<\/em>we gather together around the light. Here\u2019s a story to celebrate all of us at this time of year.<\/p>\n

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Christmas in Cornucopia <\/em><\/strong>was inspired by a real town named Cornucopia<\/em> on the south shore of Lake Superior where my little family and I spent a magical November and December when our son was just two. We were broke, but so gobsmacked by the beauty, the pristine quality of nature and the warmth of the community in that town, that this tale practically wrote itself. I especially treasure the story because it is an ode to creativity. Christmas in Cornucopia<\/em><\/strong> shines a light on the distant hologram of childhood; a portrait of what we all want: love, a place to call home, inspiration, joy, belonging.<\/p>\n

This December, we offer our special temporary broadcast on Monday, December 19th through Boxing Day, 2022, here, and wherever podcasts are found.<\/a><\/h3>\n

Beautiful four-part harmonies by After Hours<\/em>, a vintage Sunshine Coast vocal jazz quartet are featured singing Christmas favourites: \u2018Winter Wonderland\u2019, \u2018The Little Drummer Boy\u2019, \u2018Silent Night\u2019<\/em> and \u2018I\u2019ll be Home for Christmas\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You can find other seasonal stories on this podcast, Rachel is Born<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, My First Christmas with Rachel<\/a>,<\/strong> The Christmas Monster of Ripple Rock<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0& the Introduction to the Podcasts with Read Island Santa<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. These are the earliest podcasts recorded in November and December of 2019 \u2013 just before the world broke apart with COVID.<\/p>\n

The best of SUNSHINE COAST MUSICIANS<\/h2>\n

Local flavour comes in and out of the stories in song, by After Hours<\/em>, a vocal jazz quartet, singing Christmas favourites in four-part harmony: \u2018Winter Wonderland\u2019, \u2018The<\/strong> Little Drummer Boy\u2019, \u2018Silent Night<\/strong><\/em>\u2019 and \u2018I\u2019ll be Home for Christmas<\/strong><\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n

Shelley Dillon<\/em> sings Bach\/Gounod\u2019s \u2018Ave Maria\u2019<\/strong><\/em> with jazz pianist Ken Dalgleish<\/em>.\u00a0Original music with Blaine Dunaway on mandolin\/violin and the late Shari Pandit on keyboards, creates and records two tunes for the podcast\u00a0Read Island Santa Claus<\/em>. <\/strong>Seacoast Players,<\/em>\u00a0classical string quartet plays \u2018La Rejouissance\u2019 ( flute solo) from Handel\u2019s Fireworks Suite.Ken Dalgleish plays a haunting jazz melody on the grand piano at The Sunshine Coast Arts Centre to go with the podcast\u00a0The Christmas Monster of Ripple Rock<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

REALLY GOOD NEWS on an altogether different topic:<\/h3>\n

This past year my audiobook of A Theory of Expanded Love<\/em> won \u2018Distinguished Favorite\u2019 in the New York City BIG BOOK AWARD:<\/p>\n

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And unexpectedly, the title made it to<\/p>\n

Book Riot\u2019s list of 100 Best Books about Women and Religion<\/em>,<\/h3>\n

a list shared by amazing well-known writers Arundhati Roy, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood and more for books such as The God of Small Things, The Dovekeeper, The Poisonwood Bible, The Color Purple, the Patron Saint of Liars and The Handmaid’s Tale.<\/p>\n

I said O M G.<\/p>\n

This is what they said: \u201cBelow, you\u2019ll find 100 titles in which women take creative, inquisitive, constructive and critical postures toward religious traditions: those of their birth: those that belong to others, and which they encounter with an open spirit; those that they work to reform; those that they adopt. No two books are the same. All are vibrant; all hold the potential to illumine.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/bookriot.com\/100-must-read-books-about-women-religion\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, December 2022, three years after the world was turned upside down, The Grief of Life and The Trouble of Christmas are practically members of our family. Erin Em says: \u201cIt\u2019s been a year since I\u2019ve seen my father. Just from thinking critically and standing up for freedom of choice as to what I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-somekinda-woman-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7899,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions\/7899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}