I posted this entry in my blog last year.
For whatever reasons, I feel motivated to repost it this year, too.
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This time of year, the daylight hours in the northern hemisphere are fewer in number compared to the nighttime hours, a phenomenon that will continue until the Winter Solstice. In 2007, the Winter Solstice falls on December 22nd, at 1:08 AM EST (6:08 AM GMT). After that, those of us above the equator will begin to see a slow shift towards more daylight and less darkness unt... read more

Someone died at work last night. She must have been about my age, based on the looks of her son when he came to pick up her personal effects. Even though she and I had never met, I still felt the sadness and shock all night. I think perhaps the worst part of it is that she was alone when it happened.

"...if you continually count the leaves and the flowers and the fruits and never go deep into the darkness of the earth, you will never understand the tree because the tree is in the roots." -Osho