The season for eating the sun

The glittering holiday season is outside the house.
Inside the house, we will continue our normal life, quietly and uneventfully, through the New Year period. How humble.
I'm wearing black clothes and simmering a large pot of Hungarian goulash. I'm a witch. Don't worry, it's beef and vegetables I'm simmering, not a cowboy. How nutritious.

It's dark.
I miss the sunlight.
The other day, when I went for my regular dental check-up, the room and interior were all white, and I had my teeth scaled under bright white lights.
For about 30 minutes, I felt my body and mind absorbing the light. Was this light therapy?
The comfort of being enveloped in light. Even with my eyes closed, it was faintly bright.
When they said, "All done!" and I opened my eyes, I felt a grateful feeling of being filled with light. The dental hygienist's gentle smile. I almost sat up straight and put my hands together in prayer.
At this time of year, when the daylight hours are extremely short, it's often cloudy for several days in a row. I hadn't realized it, but I thought, "Have I been this starved for light?" This was my bright dentist experience.

During this darkest time of winter, the saffron bread Lussekatt that Swedish people eat is a yellow, slightly sweet bread colored with saffron.
I remember hearing that the yellow of Lussekatt represents the sunlight, and in Sweden, this bread exists to absorb sunlight into the body during the sunless winter months! I'm not sure if it's true.
Eating and absorbing sunlight into the body seems like something one would only think of if they were in a mental state pushed to the brink by a severe lack of sunlight, but I too now rely on that Swedish woman's theory of sunlight intake and enjoy eating saffron bread. (Though it might have been her joke.)
I, who eat sunlight. The saffron bread, chewed in my mouth, glowing faintly as it goes down my esophagus... It's "Lusse-katsu," eating Lussekatt relentlessly, a winter activity in the Nordics.
I might eat too much and my body might swell up and become round like a lantern.
Speaking of which, anglerfish that live in the deep sea have their own light.
Is that luminescence bacterial light? Or is it self-illumination?
The locals' preference for lighting candles in winter is similar to the anglerfish, a "light activity."

I hope the coming new year will be a year filled with light.
My personal goal for 2025 is to re-roof my house. It's truly realistic and urgent.
For light to shine through a torn roof, well, that's truly a magnificent thing.

Thank you all for this year!
I am sincerely grateful.
Please have a healthy and happy New Year 🐍.