Winter Solstice

Welcoming a time for reflection, resolution and renewal.

    Approaching Solstice

Yes friends, the darkness wins, but these short days so celebrate light:

Today the lemon sunrise lasted a few hours until sunset, all day the snow

glowed pink and purple in the trees.

This is not a time of black and white,

my friends, outside us. Among us too, let's sing what winter forces us to know:

Joy and color bloom despite the night. We measure warmth by love, not degrees.

_Patricia Monaghan