Advent Calendar Day 21

Happy Winter Solstice to you and yours.


Today is the shortest day of the year. Make every minute count. :-)












A lovely picture for you by Cobalt Moon Design (licensed by Shutterstock)




And a poem by Sara Teasdale called "A Winter Night".

My window-pane is starred with frost,
The world is bitter cold to-night,
The moon is cruel, and the wind
Is like a two-edged sword to smite.

God pity all the homeless ones,
The beggars pacing to and fro.
God pity all the poor to-night
Who walk the lamp-lit streets of snow.

My room is like a bit of June,
Warm and close-curtained fold on fold,
But somewhere, like a homeless child,
My heart is crying in the cold.