Advent Light Post 12/1/2020

(The photo is of headlights making a dotted line on the cemetery fence.) 

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Oh that morning! Len drove us like crazy across Chicago to the hospital where we would birth our first child.  It was a very clear, very cold December morning, kind of like what’s outside my window right now. 

That same evening I was wheelchaired back out of that hospital. When the lobby doors slid open, the world had become night and the driveway vapor lights lit a blizzard of whirling snow.

It was a completely different world. Yes it was.

Light doesn’t change us, but we often get busy and a few hours, or days, or years later we look up – and realize the light has changed how we see what used to be so ordinary.

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Jennifer B, Florida sunrise.

“Dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.” Larry Niven (A Sci-Fi writer)

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Afternoon over her neighbor’s barn, Kathryn R.

“I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.” E. B. White

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I went for a walk yesterday; I often walk through Prairie Hill Cemetery because it’s quiet and lovely. The light yesterday was dim which made old white limestone tombstones glow.

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Photo by Cindy H who is a friend of Mary D. Sunrise over an Up-North lake.

“The beauty isn’t in the jewel itself, but in the way the light shines through it.”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land

“But in these woods it's best to believe in all possibilities. There's more in these woods than a man can ever hope to understand.”
― William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake

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Photo of Jennifer B’s granddaughter.

“Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird.”

― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters

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Jennifer B.  “Music gives color to air.” Karl Lagerfeld.