40\u00a0 60%\u00a0 40%\u00a0 5mph\u00a0 windrose SSW\u00a0 bar steep rise\u00a0 dewpoint 27 Waxing Crescent of the Snow Moon\u00a0 Ordinary Time<\/p>\n
A great wind blows through Andover today.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 40 mph gusts.\u00a0 The grass in my window\u00a0bends to the ground, leaves swirl up from the ground and my shed door, left open yesterday, bangs against the frame.\u00a0 A change in the weather, air coming from the arctic.<\/p>\n
This is the brown season, a season in which the only garden color is green.\u00a0\u00a0 The bleakness corresponds to a certain wildness in my soul and I revel in it.\u00a0 Lower the lights, crank up the wind, bring on the snow.\u00a0 Then, then we can get down to it, the travel toward the deep places, the caverns and secret gardens hidden by too much light.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is\u00a0holiseason, a time when\u00a0external beauty and easy movement vanish, clearing away a swath of maya, leaving us bare before ourselves.\u00a0 The Winter Solstice is the well, the sublime and darkest moment.\u00a0 St John of the Cross gave us the phrase “dark night of the soul.”\u00a0 He saw\u00a0the dark night\u00a0as a place of challenge, of despair and hopelessness, the extinction, or near extinction of faith, salvaged only by re-emergence into the light of faith.\u00a0 This is one ancient trail.\u00a0 There is another that sees the dark night as the very place, the site of connection with the sacred depth.\u00a0 Here in the darkness from which we came and toward which we move our entire life we embrace fecundity, the richness inherent in blackness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
40\u00a0 60%\u00a0 40%\u00a0 5mph\u00a0 windrose SSW\u00a0 bar steep rise\u00a0 dewpoint 27 Waxing Crescent of the Snow Moon\u00a0 Ordinary Time A great wind blows through Andover today.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 40 mph gusts.\u00a0 The grass in my window\u00a0bends to the ground, leaves swirl up from the ground and my shed door, left open yesterday, bangs against the frame.\u00a0 … Continue reading The Dark Night Comes<\/span>