LONGEST NIGHT

Coastal Redwood bonsai at Pacific Bonsai Museum, Federal Way, Washington.

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Longest Night. Winter solstice. A personal holy day.

This year was celebrated by attending A Bonsai Solstice at Pacific Bonsai Museum, one of my favorite winter events. It was a night of looking at these artful tiny trees, some of which were illuminated by spotlights and some of which were in dark and had to be illuminated by flashlights or phones that viewers brought. I really enjoyed experiencing these trees in a shadowy, still, and somewhat silent atmosphere.

As The Wife remarked, this was a "good Advent event." It was a time of patience and quiet and slowness.

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Now the night continues with reading short horror stories by Brian Evenson. His collection Song for the Unravelling of the World is unnerving and creepy, yet compelling.

Here I am hiding in the dark!