<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">Winter Solstice</span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class=""><br class="">
Perhaps<br class="">
for a<br class="">
moment<br class="">
the typewriters will<br class="">
stop clicking,<br class="">
the wheels stop<br class="">
rolling<br class="">
the computers desist<br class="">
from computing,<br class="">
and a hush will fall<br class="">
over the city.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">For an instant, in<br class="">
the stillness,<br class="">
the chiming of the<br class="">
celestial spheres will be heard<br class="">
as earth hangs<br class="">
poised<br class="">
in the crystalline<br class="">
darkness, and then<br class="">
gracefully<br class="">
tilts.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">Let there be a<br class="">
season<br class="">
when holiness is<br class="">
heard, and<br class="">
the splendor of<br class="">
living is revealed.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">Stunned to stillness<br class="">
by beauty<br class="">
we remember who we<br class="">
are and why we are here.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">There are<br class="">
inexplicable mysteries.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">We are not<br class="">
alone.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">In the universe there<br class="">
moves a Wild One<br class="">
whose gestures alter<br class="">
earth's axis<br class="">
toward<br class="">
love.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">In the immense<br class="">
darkness<br class="">
everything spins with<br class="">
joy.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">The cosmos enfolds<br class="">
us.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">We are caught in a<br class="">
web of stars,<br class="">
cradled in a swaying<br class="">
embrace,<br class="">
rocked by the holy<br class="">
night,<br class="">
babes of the<br class="">
universe.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class="">Let this be the<br class="">
time<br class="">
we wake to<br class="">
life,<br class="">
like spring wakes, in<br class="">
the moment<br class="">
of winter<br class="">
solstice</p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rebecca Parker</div>
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