A ringed full moon casts

soft shadows on fresh snow as

         January ends. 

 

A peaceful image to end a rough month. 

Lights down, curtain up,

and "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" -

        music and dance - Wow!

 

NMU's co/lab dance performance. 

It was amazing and more.         

Sunlight sliding down

the roofs across the courtyard -

      a new day drops in. 

 

Ok - we don't really have a "courtyard", we have a greenspace with a pond that is snow-covered. Or you could use "commons" I guess.

Fried rice, chicken legs:

tasted too good, ate too much -

      community meal!

Afternoon shadows

stretch across snow covered yard -

         twilight approaches. 

 Robert Burns Supper -

Grace, Haggis, Toasts, Auld Lang Syne -

      missed it again - Rats!

(It was last night. Maybe next year. I always think you could do it with a pasty instead of a haggis!) There was a professor in the geology department where I went to college that used to do a Robert W Service dinner each year.  My roommate was a geology major and would go.  "There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold...."

 

Sweet Jesus -

I think I know what you had in mind when you said -

"I will send you out to fish for people."

I think you meant find all kinds of people -

  +the rich and the poor,

  +the littlest and the lost,

  +the strangers among us, whoever they are,

  +Moms and Dads, Grandmas and Grandpas, and children, 

  +the young (5 year olds) and the elders,

  +the discouraged and the enthusiastic,

  +the hungry and those who are well fed,

  +those in warm houses and those on cold (freezing) streets,

and gather them into the community/congregation/family of your grace

and wrap them securely in your loving arms

and shelter them under your holy wings. 

I don't think that is what we are doing today. 

 

And I love this picture by Peter Koenig -