Five Years a Writer

This Thursday, December 21st, is the shortest day of the year, and thank goodness for that because these short winter days with the dark early mornings and early dark evenings have been sapping my creative energy. I need the glimmer of more light to rekindle my spark for the new year coming.  Maybe you feel the same, or maybe the changing seasons and the greater or lesser amount of daylight makes no difference to you. No matter how your internal clocks chimes, we in the Northern hemisphere will all soon be enjoying increased daylight in incremental measures — and, if you are like me, we will revel in every single second of that renewed light. For it brings us closer to warmer temperatures and longer days outside and, thus, greater internal energy to enjoy what those days can offer.  In the meantime, I will hunker down, burrow into the current longer dark hours, and embrace what creative energy I can find in there to remind myself that I am fortunate to live where I do and how I do. Thi