Fire for Family

Every year my Grandmother hosts a Winter Solstice Celebration for her Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. She and the members of her community get together to light a bonfire, announce their wishes for the year, and share time in reflection as the shortest day of the year comes to an end. For the past couple of years, I've been able to lend to the ceremony by dancing with poi, small wicks on chains that I light on fire. It's one of my favorite ways I give back to my grandmother. I dance with fire for her and all of her friends, symbolically ushering out the dark and welcoming back the light.