Today Wigilia (from Latin Vigilia, or awaiting). Celebrated the day before Christmas, it's deeply rooted in Polish tradition, emanating smells, sights, and folklore unique to the occasion. It revolves around family and a festive twelve course dinner that starts late in the evening, when the first star in the sky is spotted. Closing my eyes I can still see us kids with noses glued to the window, waiting. Somehow my only living memories of this day at Grandma's are back from the late 1980's, when it was beaming with life and bursting at the seams with people, preparations, food cooking simultaneously on all four burners and makowiec (poppy seed cake) fresh from the oven - all despite grim political reality of the time. Magical.
This year our pack shrank.
We're holding everyone dearly in our hearts today, wishing you an amazing evening and Christmas time filled with love and happiness.
This piece strikes a cord, especially today; it's truly the soul of this soil, yet universal.
With all our love!
This year our pack shrank.
We're holding everyone dearly in our hearts today, wishing you an amazing evening and Christmas time filled with love and happiness.
This piece strikes a cord, especially today; it's truly the soul of this soil, yet universal.
With all our love!
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