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“This symbol” — she gestured at the fylfots on the bishop’s statue — “is thousands of years old. It will long outlive a party of fascists…..I am reclaiming it for its true meaning….i have used it as and act of subversion. A single thread can make quite a difference.”

They’re fylfots….An old Anglo-Saxon word. It is an ancient symbol that has been used for thousands of years, in many cultures and religions, from India to Scandinavia, and particularly used in Hinduism and Buddhism. A symbol of light and life and good fortune….
The direction the symbol runs is neither here nor there. It has been used both ways for centuries.

Despite refrigeration and shops where you could buy food year-round, she sometimes felt in January that she was subsisting like her ancestors, waiting for sunlight and its warmth to unclench her and and first shoots of spring to reassure her that life was continuing.