Welcome 2018

Dwight's sculpture "Between Earth and Sky" pictured at MuRefuge.
She has now been transplanted to Santa Fe, New Mexico,
to remind ourselves to BE open to "the circles of our lives"
as Wendell Berry so magnificently depicts below:

Within the circles of our lives

we dance the circles of the years,

the circles of the seasons 

within the circles of the years,

the cycles of the moon

within the circles of the seasons,

the circles of our reasons

within the cycles of the moon.

Again, again we come and go,

changed, changing. Hands

join, unjoin in love and fear,

grief and joy, The circles turn,

each giving into each, into all.

Only music keeps us here,

each by all the others held.

In the hold of hands and eyes

we turn in pairs, that joining

joining each to all again.

And then we turn aside, alone,

out of the sunlight gone

into the darker circles of return.

      Wendell Berry

Let us all welcome 2018 with open arms; circling, circling, circling. And to discharge the turmoil, anger, fear, grief within may we each

2017 Winter Solstice

WARM WINTER SOLSTICE GREETING 

to each of you from 

"The Land of Enchantment."

The Winter Solstice marks midwinter. Indigenous,"first peoples" all over planet Earth have long honored this significant and cyclical turning event. These peoples were connected with land, sky, the four directions and all BEings; thus they were profoundly in tune with the cycles of the seasons, sun, moon as well as birth and death.

Tonight is the longest night of the year with the occurrence of more dark hours, thus affording each of us an extended opportunity to access of the spiritual realm.   

"It is our quiet time

We do not speak, because the voices are within us

It is our quiet time

 We do not walk, because the earth is all within us

It is our quiet time

We do not dance, because the music has lifted us to a place 

where the spirit is

It is our quiet time

We rest with all of nature. . . ."

Nancy Wood

Unlike Winter Solstice  2017 with a new moon a commencing earlier in theis week,
some years the full moon coincides with Winter Solstice.
This picture taken a number of years ago on a Winter Solstice from the West side
of Mono Lake, California, depicts the rising full moon.

However each of us chose to honor this cyclical event, may we also