Canoe Journey III “following in the steps of tradition”  pastel 13″ x 18″

Backlit

Greetings to my companions on the journey for love and blessings in the coming year.

- Margaret

This is the time of harvest, of thanksgiving and of leave-taking and sorrow. Life
appears to decline. The season of barrenness is upon us, yet we give thanks for
that which we have reaped and gathered. The end of a cycle has come. We enter
our resting season. The seed now begins its time of gestation in the rich dark
earth. It is the great cold of night; not the negative images of darkness, but
the dark richness of that unknown, fertile, deep part in each of us where our
intuitive creative forces abide. The Christ energy enters the earth at this
season. The Yule log is lighted. The nights grow shorter, the light returns, and
we experience rebirth.

Wendell
Berry