CHRISTMAS? ... the question of time.
Christmas? A chronological time? A liturgical-theological? Or maybe just the only time in the distilled drinking days. The one and the same time unreflective, lived, first of all thought and theory. Individual and collective experience, psychological and social. Nomadic or sedentary time, cyclical, or becoming, evolution or eternal return. Fragments collected in time to do this most sacred and protect it against something and someone who could debase, mar. But always and time, although sometimes some of its individual fragments appear brighter or valuable than others. Time of joy and fatigue, time of sun or ancestral piogge.Riconoscimento more or less graceful movements of the cosmos and its atmosphere, movements which, in almost all cultures were identical to the divine movements. So even a Solstice ... December 25, the beginning of a different event, or around the summer into winter, second from that point Geographically we look at it. Evolution of minutes to allow the light to stay longer with us or to leave before, but always fragments in order to live and learn to live. Solstice, from the Latin solstitium, that is, stopping the sun and then go forward or reverse the trend toward ... ... Memory of the gods, or after the fall of the Roman empire, the memory of the son of God the fullness of time, as stated in letter written by Paul, the community of Galicia (cf. Ga 4:4). Finding a size and a historical sense that are less dilated and that imposed by the geographical coordinates of empires and the human in order to recognize the most secret the birth pangs of so many men and women that every day know how much it costs or what it means to give birth to someone or something: a dream, an 'idea, a plant, a job ... But the whole effort of biodiversity that accompanies even our most secret historical developments and allows the Solstice to resume its course. So yes from Bolivia:
Merry Christmas to everyone and everything.
Antonietta Potente op - community.
