Season of Darkness and Light

Present pagan that I am, I still enjoy Christmas.  Winter solstice has just passed, our tree is sparking with light, gifts are wrapped and ready, my son is giddy with excitement, and I feel a bit of the magic, too.  In this season, I like to sit in the evenings, after most everyone has retired to bed, and watch the lights sparkle in the dark boughs of the tree.

Perhaps this is the former monkish aspirant speaking, but I've long appreciate Arvo Pärt's choral music, especially its balancing of light and dark, sound and silence.

Merry Christmas, to those of you who celebrate it.

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