Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Breaking Some Things...Saving Others

It's the end of the year mad dash.
Try to fit a whole month's worth of work into three weeks.
Cut our expenses but try and get clients to spend more.
Do without those things that we have broken or cut off.
Convince our customers that they can't live without us.
Days are getting shorter.
It feels like we are running out of time.
But renewal is right around the corner.
Out of the darkness a new year will be born.
Time to take stock.
Time to throw off the truly unnecessary.
Time to take comfort from simple things,
the things that give you warmth and joy,
like holding hands beneath the blankets.
Solstice is almost here.
Fill up the darkness with inner light.
So the sun will be drawn back to us again.
Solstice is almost here.
Turn and engage with another year.
For it is a new year,
no matter what we have saved,
no matter what we have broken.
Solstice is here.
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Echoes: Photo Montage by Erik Johansson
Bottom photo of my home last Christmas
Happy Holidays to Everyone
Solstice, Yule, Hanukkah, Christmas, whichever ones you hold dear.

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