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DECEMBER LIGHT- Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown, watercolor on paper, 2013.
Today is the winter solstice in this northern hemisphere, the beginning of returning light. As this sacred and powerful time unfolds, I want to take the time to say thank you to all who have shared in my music, art, and words, and to wish you all the best in the days at hand and ahead.
It has been a busy autumn-- great painting light, lots of music. In early December I finished a final draft of the fourth Liam Dutra New England mystery novel, SNOW- DARK CROSSING. It goes back to the editor in January, and should be out in April. For now I am taking a break from focused writing work, instead enjoying the luxury of reading for pleasure in the mornings.
Again, best wishes to all; I'll leave you with this new winter solstice poem:
In cold terrain, from winter rock,
enclosed and protected
by bare branch, bending hemlock
the wellspring rises,
breaks the hollow song of ice:
Water with the clarity of light.
the pulsing of all
deeper life
revealed, renewed,
free-flowing,
centered;
In December darkness,
stillness entered.
-Kevin Macneil Brown, December 2013.
