Two years

"Nora \n(o)-ra\, pronounced NOR-ah. It is of English origin. Short for Eleanora (Greek), meaning 'light'."

"...but light is more elusive than we like to remember. When the ancients observed the winter solstice, it was with thousands of years of fear that, once gone, the light might not come back. It might not, this time, return to warm the earth or grow the seeds or prod the harvests upon which they depended for life. The great ancient monuments—Stonehenge in England, or New Grange, even older, in Ireland—were built to function in the midst of wet, cold, black winter, when darkness was its deepest, its longest, its cruelest. Then the light was tenuous. Then even the days were gray. The monuments were built to catch the first gleam of light after the longest night in the year. When the days were darkest, then the light came. But you couldn’t be sure it would. You had to be patient, be hopeful, be strong. It was the return of light that you were celebrating. It was the return of the light that gave reason for hope in another year." - Joan Chittister

Happy birthday to our Solstice kid. Our light and our joy. We are so grateful for you and can't wait to see you illuminate the world.