Today's Song in the December Musical Giftstravaganza is a belated Solstice offering. Thea Gilmore in 2009 put out an Winter album called Strange Communion. →[More:]

Sol Invictus has his origins in the cultural and spiritual mashup which is the first few centuries, AD, in the British Isles. But it can be heard as a welcoming of the lengthening of days, and gratitude in the return of the Invincible Sun for another year.

As a bonus, and a nod to my wonderful, funny, attractive, and convivial NY friends, another Gilmore song that is very ethereal and haunting even if the actual lyrics do not reflect my sentiments towards the NY bunnies and Metafilterians.