I have always disliked the creeping darkness of fall, each day getting shorter, the nights getting longer, so I used to celebrate the day after the winter solstice — the end of the creeping darkness and the beginning of the brightening.
I didn’t much notice either the light or the dark during the past few years. All my days seemed dark, first with the long dying of my life mate/soul mate then with my grief after this death. But now that I am opening up to life again, opening up to a brighter time, it seems fitting that once again I should celebrate the end of the creeping darkness and the beginning of the brightening.
To that end, I have planted light. I wonder if it will grow.
Wishing you a brighter day and a new year filled with light!
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Pat Bertram is the author of the suspense novels Light Bringer, More Deaths Than One, A Spark of Heavenly Fire, and Daughter Am I. Bertram is also the author of Grief: The Great Yearning, “an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.” Connect with Pat on Google+
December 22, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Happy New Year, Pat. Hope it’s not too cold where you are.
December 22, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Happy New Year, Rami. It’s cold and windy here, but compared to the temperatures where you are, it would probably seem balmy.
December 22, 2012 at 6:13 pm
probably; we have snow on the ground and ice-chopsticks coming out of our noses.
December 22, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Let there be light!
December 22, 2012 at 8:14 pm
Yes!
December 23, 2012 at 2:56 am
Merry Christmas and Happy New year!
As I write this I am sweating in front of my computer. High summer right now in the land of Oz! Winter is a long way off.
Right now a couple of days at the beach is the way to go.
December 23, 2012 at 12:19 pm
I tend to forget that things are different at the other side of the globe. So you are entering the time of the creeping darkness, so especially, I am wishing you a bright new year.
December 24, 2012 at 8:45 pm
If you plant it, it will grow!