A Midwinter's Mantra

Midwinter!
And I welcome its coming
for I now know that this is the
Midwinter of my life
when the Sun has sunk as low as
he can get
And can go no lower.

Now all must change;
all must be made new.
I will no longer be that man
sinking into darkness,
but I will feel the new heat of my own rising.
Everyday I will commit to burning
brighter and brighter.

Ah, I will become a pirate and seize what I will!
let no man say it is not mine to take!
for I will take it and
make it mine or die trying,
and this shall be
my new mantra as I journey
into Summer.

Peter the Pirate: Christmas on the Moon

This story is in audio only. Grab a cup of tea and sit with a comforter, watch the snow falling outside, and plan to listen to a story in ballad form for about an hour. It is the third part of the Peter the Pirate St. Nicholas stories. I wrote these over the years as apart of our family's St. Nicholas Day celebrations.

In the first story, Peter the Pirate and the Christmas ship, St. Nicholas comes to Peter's Island and takes Peter away on an adventure on the Christmas ship. The Ship is a magic ship, and like magic ships in other stories, it can fly, not just in the air, but across celestial seas. It is in this first story that we first meet the children who man the crew of the Christmas ship

In the second story, Peter the Pirate and Christmas Island, we find out that these children come from a cursed land called Christmas Island that is frozen in time at one minute until 12 on Christmas Eve so that Christmas can never come! The Children were rescued by St. Nicholas on the Christmas ship, but the Saint, is unable to remove the curse. In this story, Peter travels to that land and finds a way to remove the curse on that Island. The children are finally returned to their parents and Christmas comes to Christmas Island at long last. It became a tradition then that the Children from Christmas Island should crew the Christmas ship thereafter. This third story takes place many, many years later.

For music, I have used clips from various songs by Blackmore's Night. (Awsome music! I hope you check them out.)