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Christ Pantocrator of Saint Catherine's Monastery is one of the oldest Byzantine religious icons, dating from the 6th century AD. The earliest known surviving depiction of Jesus Christ as Pantocrator (literally ruler of all), it is regarded by historians and scholars among the most important and recognizable works in the study of Byzantine art as well as Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christianity.

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‘Rabbit Tale’  SuzyTheButcher / DeviantArt

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Robert W. Kelley. Girl walking in muddy yard. John’s Creek school, Pike County. 1955

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Lennart Helje

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“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger”

— Virginia Woolf

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"On Christmas Eve my father would tell us, ‘He’s on his way now, coming round Slieve Gallon, if you listen hard maybe you’ll hear the sleigh bells.’ I remember climbing the beech tree at the end of our lane, listening through the frosty air."

Seamus Heaney

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~Nina Leen

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'Deer Mother', the image is from 'The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage, 1887 Artist : unknown.

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'Girl Seals Christmas Present' by John Bauer, (1882 - 1918).

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Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed toads bite !!

Bed of frogs/toads, Germany, 15thC

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Ralph Eugene Meatyard

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Also, as I was finding, this dimming season sharpens one. The trees are bare. Spirits stir in the stripped branches. November supposedly renders thin the veil.

Louise Erdrich, from 'The Sentence'

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'The old gods are everywhere,' she says. 'They swim in the river, and grow in the field, and sing in the woods. They are in the sunlight on the wheat, and under saplings in the spring, and in the vines that grow up the side of that stone church. They gather at the edges of the day, at dawn, and at dusk.'

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab

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'The Woods' by Vishnu M. Nair

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God hidden within me. I find Him by hiding in the silence in which He is concealed.'

~Thomas Merton, from "Entering the Silence'

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I am not I. I am the one I do not see, who forgives when I hate, remains silent while I talk, who lives when I die.

- Heloise Idstein

Artwork: Corine Ko

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Into the velvet darkness

Catherine Hyde