Journey through the Seasons

Journey through Winter S2 -Immerse


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Edited by Dan Lange

Music Credit: Purple Planet Music: Reiki Healing - https://www.purple-planet.com/home

Opening words - Sue reads words from Adam Maxwell Martin

Immerse chat: Sue had been meditating at her local Buddhist centre: https://meditateinnorthants.com and Emma attended an Aga cooking demo at Aga Oundle: https://www.agaliving.com/store-locator/aga-oundle

Seasonal Living: The moment of winter solstice 2025 is 3.03pm on 21 December.  Sue shares words from The Almanac 2026, by Lia Leendertz

Recipes: To make fire honey, mix a small (225ml) jar of honey with the the finely chopped peel from a lemon and an orange, a c5cm chunk of ginger, grated,  one finely chopped red chilli, a teaspoon of turmeric and a teaspoon of cinnamon.  You'll need one teaspoon of fire honey in one cup of hot water for an immune boosting drink.  

You can find the recipes for frangipane mincemeat squares here: http://www.daffodilkitchen.com/christmas-frangipane-mincemeat-squares/

Self-Care: you can read more about Jolabokaflod here: https://jolabokaflod.org/about/founding-story/

Seasonal words - Emma shares Robert Frost's Dust of Snow and reads words from Nina McLaughlin's Winter Solstice essay collection

What's on our Bookshelves:  Sue is reading The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club by Faith Hogan and This Way Up by Jay Forman and Mark Cooper Jones and watching videos by Ed Pratt, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNy42Y5egf07cSiHbF23wg .  Emma is reading Nancy Mitford's Christmas Pudding and about to read Freya North's Christmas at Flora's House.  She has been to see Nuremburg and was recently interviewed for the podcast Gathering Garden Ghosts, hosted by Melanie Hicks: https://open.substack.com/pub/melaniehick?r=1l6l79&utm_medium=ios

This month's blessing card was drawn from Pippa Best's Sea Soul Blessings pack.

Timings:  Opening Words -0.55/ Immerse Chat - 01.58 /  Seasonal Living - 15.56/ Recipes - 21.06/ Self-Care - 27.54/ Seasonal Words - 30.43 / What's on Our Bookshelf - 35.36 /Tasks - 42.10/ Blessing - 46.07/ Goodbyes - 46.57

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Journey through the SeasonsBy Emma Wise and Sue Wood