Advent Light Post 11/30/2020

Today is Len’s birthday and to celebrate being born on the last day of November in the upper Midwest, he is out on his bike right now. It’s spitting snow, there are 20-30mph winds, and the real-feel temp is 20. He has on both pairs of his bicycling pants. He also has a slice of pumpkin raisin Bundt cake (hmmm, I wonder who baked that) in his bike’s little trunk. 

Happy Birthday to the kind of guy who, when a girl invites him to attend the Sunday school class she teaches - comes to that Sunday school class. A rare man, indeed. 

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I asked you to send to me photos of light. It was really fun to open your emails with your beautiful pictures.

Karen P live in Indiana. This was a view from her porch at dawn last week.

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through it and Other Stories

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Lorna G lives in Arizona.

This is from Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop. “Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was far away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!”

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Jennifer B’s grandkids, exploring the known world. I think that adorable little girl has her jacket on backwards. I bet she has a powerful reason for arming herself that way.

“In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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 Mary C was making wreaths in her backyard from boughs from this tree that they planted for their daughter’s wedding ten years ago.

It’s curious all the ways how we pass along ourselves. Traditions, remembered baked goods, stories, recipes, the way we surrounded our young ones with beauty and love, the ways and days we didn’t.

“Serotinous cones. In environments where hot, fast moving fires are frequent, some pine species have developed very thick, hard cones that are literally glued shut with a strong resin. These “serotinous” cones can hang on a pine tree for years, long after the enclosed seeds mature. Only when a fire sweeps through, melting the resin, do these heat-dependent cones open up, releasing seeds that are then distributed by wind and gravity.”

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Jennifer B took this at sunset.

"Sally Goes Round the Sun is a popular circle dance usually played in larger groups. The dance is a very simple one, kids go around in a circle singing. When they sing the song a second time, they go in the opposite direction. Sally Goes Round the Sun is also used to teach little kids the days of the week. In that instance, the day of the week in the third verse is changed each time.

“Sally Goes Round the Sun” Lyrics

Sally go round the sun,
Sally go round the moon,
Sally go round the chimney pots
On a Sunday afternoon."

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If you have photos you took today or older ones, I would love to post them. Looking for light in Advent. Funny that advent is how adventure begins.