Solstice, revisited....

January 14, 2011

Have you noticed that the days are a little longer, that the sun is going down a bit later each day?  It feels good, personally, to know that we are on the other side of the shortest day of the year, and that warmer days and more light are on the way!  The solstice was a really special time this year, as there was a full moon, a total lunar eclipse, and the winter solstice all taking place within one day. 

 Whew!  I managed to get up early on Tuesday, Solstice morning, and decided to go for a walk just as it was beginning to get light outside.  As the sky was a lovely pink, and showed promise of a sweet sunrise, I ran back inside and got my camera.  GOOD call!  From the minute I got back outside, I was taking pictures all the way along my walk.  It was SO beautiful!!  Every part of the sky was colored, from purples and pinks to gold and tangerine, in all directions and in all shades imaginable!!!  I just couldn't believe how much everything kept changing, and every second seemed more beautiful than the one before!!  During the week, the sunrise came up often - a number of people had seen it, and were just as awed by it as I was.  I asked my neighbor, who is a very early riser, if a lot of mornings were like that, and I've been missing them all Fall.  "Nope. That was a really special one.  They don't get much better than that!"                          

It was good news to hear, and mostly, because it let me see that once again, I was in the right place at the right time.  That of all the mornings I chose to go out early, I was out for a huge visual gift.  I think I got to feel that, for all the ways I think that I'm floating around in life right now, with no vision or focus, drifting with no definition or design, I might actually be in the absolute right and perfect place at the right time.  So I've started to relax a little, surrender a little more to being where I am, like it or not, and trust that not only will everything turn out OK, but that it's turning out OK now.  Amen!!

In addition to these shots, I have posted several more on a Kodak website; if you're interested to see them, send me your email, and Kodak will send you an "invite" to view the pictures.  Enjoy!  Love to you and all the light that you are in this world!