The Shutter and the Sentence

"The people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”

-Matthew 4:16

Photo: Chicago Botanic Gardens Lightscape, Illinois

On the coldest, darkest night of the year, hope is coming. It only gets lighter from here!

Happy Winter Solstice and Merry Christmas. 

Photo: Quebec City, Canada

“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.”--Psalm 119:105

Photo: Bryson City, North Carolina

Illuminations!

Photo: Morton Arboretum, Illinois

“Do You Hear What I Hear”

Prayers for people at home and around the world this Christmas. May the new year bring a renewal of love and light for all.

Photo: Mokena, Illinois

Gaps and divides are only beautiful in nature. Let’s try and come together.

Photo: Antelope Canyon, Arizona

Do not go gentle into that good night

Do not go gentle into that good night

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right.

Because their words had forked no lightning they 

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who sang and caught the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on that sad height,

Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

                            --Dylan Thomas

Photo: Vienna, Austria