• What gives light in winter

    “Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled— to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery. I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing— that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and falling. And I do.” ― Mary Oliver, House of Light Now through December we will slowly watch darkness overcome light. December 22 is the Winter Solstice, when one of the earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the…