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With Epiphany coming (next Monday) and am leaving the Season of Yule and entering into the transition_ beyond Faerie. I long to be walking in the night, in solitude, in wood or field. How about you?

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Loreena McKennitt - Huron Carol (Jesous Ahatonhia)

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One more for luck!

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Happy Christmas from Stile Antico!

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I Saw Three Ships Medley (Medley)

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"Dance like Frosty. Shine like Rudolph. Give like Santa. Love like Jesus." Cold Morning, 2024 Taken by myself in Salt Lake City, UT

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Jonna Jinton

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Winter

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A Faery Christmas Offering--a visit from Nicholas and his elves from a dream-vision back in 2018.

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Response to something Tolkien said about the power of stories and their orienting us to a better vision of the world

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"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them" - George Eliot, English Novelist and Poet (1819-1880)

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FIRST SNOW (Pics from a walk after the 'First Snow' in 2015)

Today we really had the First Snow after yesterday's tantalizing tease! As I walked to work the snow was coming down, covering everything and creating a white wonderland where there is usually just the ordinary houses, buildings, alleys and trees. There were trees with still-clinging yellow and red leaves, which stood out from the whitening tapestry falling upon and around them_

I remembered walks I've taken over the years -- once or twice taking the day off from work -- and regretting I had not brought my camera along. So here are some pics from years ago, on just such a walk after a First Snow.

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Waterfall nymph, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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Sunset over the Winter Forest - Heinrich Gogarten (1850-1911).

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As we draw nearer -- being drawn into -- the Winter Solstice Season, I turn to the calendar of Thirteen Nights and Days that I have been poetically engaged with over the last 40 years. Here is a book about that 'calendar' that I published in 2011.