Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? Pablo Picasso

Ho-Ho & Mistletoe

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and
celebrate just living! Anonymous

It gives a lovely light. Edna St. Vincent Millay

This is the time when the sun seems to “stand still,”
and the longest night of the year is with us
We progress into the winter season…
A time of transition and change,
We enlist the help of Spirit to let go of old ways of being and create the new.
We celebrate a time of spiritual opening–when the “veil between the worlds is thinner.”
Taken from Talking Birds Press

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! We have our annual party this weekend to celebrate!

Mont Royal, Montreal, Canada, Quebec
Jaunuary, 2003

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius

January 2003
On the St. Lawrence River, Verdune, Quebec, Canada

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. Barbara Kingsolver

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true
‘The empty vessel makes the greatest sound’. William Shakespeare

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. Ursula K. LeGuin

If life’s journey be endless where is its goal?
The answer is, it is everywhere.
We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. Rabindranath Tagore