Merry Solstice: A different kind of holiday party in Morristown tonight

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It’s that time of year. Time to gather with loved ones, take stock of another year, and celebrate a Merry…Solstice?

Yes, it’s the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year. A 7 pm party at the Early Street Community Garden will mark the occasion with a family-friendly 90-minute event that will include some delicious snacks, a moon salutation or two, and some reflections about the year that has been.

“To me, it’s really a celebration of the light coming back,” said Carolle Huber of Grow It Green Morristown, the nonprofit that created the garden.

“Even though we’re heading into the cold winter right now, we can look forward to the light coming back–and gardening next year.”

Carolle called the Winter Solstice “a time to remember and appreciate a year that is ending, releasing all that was negative and setting a new intention for the new year.”

There will be “moon salutations” from a Yogi — after Bike Morristown’s shortest ride of the year. It commences at Marty’s Reliable Cycle at 6:55 pm and rolls downhill to the Community Garden.

(While you’re at Marty’s, check out his award-winning Christmas decorations.)

You might even meet a witch–of the Good Witch variety from the Wizard of Oz.

Farmer Tammy Toad Ryan defines a witch as “a woman who cares for the land and her community.

“My people are from the British Isles and like all indigenous cultures, had a spiritual as well as physical relationship to the land,” she writes.

“Being a witch is seeing the sacred in all and it is a rich and beautifully challenging path which I came upon when I began my study of herbal medicine 13 years ago.”

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