Although the winter solstice falls in December (for those in the Northern Hemisphere), it never really feels like the days grow longer and the light brighter until well into the new year. As winter wears on it becomes ever more important to notice the places of brightness, and to create those places where we can.
How will you find or shed a little extra light today?
When we walk on a bridge or pier we see the “right side,” the side designed for traffic, the side meant to be exposed to the world. But what holds us up is the unseen underside, the structure that makes the rest possible.
What beliefs are so foundational for you that you rarely think about them?
This mailbox looks as if it’s been waiting for the mail to come for some time, with deliveries, perhaps, few and far between.
What have you waited and hoped for the longest?
“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
–Vaclav Havel
What have you seen lately that gives you faith in the possibility that humans could save “this human world”?
If you could wash away the sands of time you might be able to see your roots—the things you learned in your earliest childhood, the teachings you gleaned from your parents and ancestors without ever being aware that you were learning.
What of your roots is visible to you at this moment?
