Happy New Year 2014!

                

As yet another year comes to a close, let us ask ourselves as did Georgia O'Keefe this provocative question: 

"When I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest." 

How and what in 2014 will interest you? Where will you be? Only you can make a difference for where you have been. Only your voice and actions have meaning for you, be heard. 

Add your voice to the many others, together they are a force. . .                                     may the Force be with you. 

                                     Happy New Year! 

Welcoming the Winter Solstice!

                           Happy Winter Solstice!

                Dance as if no one is watching!

                      The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper

                                             So the shortest day came, and the year died,
                                       And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
                                             Came people singing, dancing,
                                      To drive the dark away.
                                             They lighted candles in the winter trees;
                                      They hung their homes with evergreen;
                                             They burned beseeching fires all night long
                                      To keep the year alive,
                                             And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
                                      They shouted, reveling.
                                             Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
                                      Echoing behind us - Listen!!
                                             All the long echoes sing the same delight,
                                      This shortest day,
                                             As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
                                      They carol, fest, give thanks,
                                            And dearly love their friends,
                                      And hope for peace.
                                           And so do we, here, now,
                                      This year and every year.
                                                               Welcome Yule!!

Enjoy this winter season.
Linda