The Ninth Day Of Christmas 2013-14

Today is the ninth day of Christmastide. According to the many versions of the English carol about these twelve days, on Day Nine you can have your choice of drummers drumming, lords a leaping, ladies dancing, pipers playing, or bears a beating. Today's art is a selection of New Year's greeting from the inventory of the Wiener Werkstatte art community active in Vienna in the early decades of the last century.

Music for today removes us from the crowds and noise we may have experienced hours earlier and takes us into the quiet of a starry winter night and the vastness of an new and empty year.

Homage To The Waning Sunlight Days

The world is well past September's Vernal Equinox. In the Northern Hemisphere, we begin this month with the Sun's zenith racing south, our daylight shrinking, and nature cooling into a period of rest. Our garden moved inside earlier and we restored firewood to the hearth. The blue sky behind the fall palette of our woods turned gray by supper and rain fell hard by dark. In silence we talk to faces in the fire of the green months and the promises of holidays and future time.