One more deep dark to go in 2024, the deepest dark left this year. I don’t necessarily think of the dark as a bad thing\u2014 i know it shelters and protects\u2014 but the last week leading up to this solstice has been among the personally worst I’ve had in a while, and the last two months among the globally worst.<\/p>\n
I know that the turning of years and the passage of human-marked time don’t mean more than what we make them to mean, but as a bunch of us have said, over and over, their meaning what we make them to mean still means something. Know what I mean?<\/p>\n
So I’m trying to go into this wheel turn into more light with an intention and a resonance wherein the meaning of “more light” is in line with “better things.”<\/p>\n
It’s obviously no guarantee, but things have been pretty\u2026 squishy lately. And this it’s a way to set the stage and a reminder of a direction to and through which to aim.<\/p>\n
So here’s to more light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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