So Many Lights!

Hello Dear Friends,

Happy New Year!

I had a splendid time these past two weeks - relaxing and visiting and cooking and shopping and seeing lots of lights. Just driving around the neighborhood is a spectacular event. So many lights!

We ended up going to many different lights shows and I probably took a hundred photos all told, but not a single one conveys the experience. It was dark outside. It was cold. On nights like that, I’m usually found huddled in my chair in the living room knitting something warm. Instead, I was outside, bundled up in many layers. I really wanted to see these lights. I paid money to see the lights!

And it was totally worth it.

Some of the light displays that we saw were just sublime. No soundtrack, just silence and beauty. Others were over the top commercial - reindeer and Santa and Christmas trees flashing in time to music. It didn’t matter to me. I liked them all.

Those lights poked holes through the darkness. They got me out of my chair and into the outdoors. They gave me glimpses of hope for tomorrow.

And maybe tomorrow will be sublimely beautiful and calm or maybe it will be raucous and noisy but whatever it is, I know it will have more light.

There’s light in the silence and calm. There’s light in the noise and activity. In our practice this month we will explore all of those opportunities to find the light.

With light and love,

Nina G

(photos by N Sigmund)