*[image: img20191031_18021200_0002.jpg]**2019: A Soolstice Year[image: img20191031_18021200_0002.jpg]* The year 2019 is coming to its natural end. This is the Winter Solstice. According to Celtic Mythology, the Sun will begin its return from deep within the good earth as it does every year at this time, and as it does every day. This year 2019 has been a year of ongoing Solstice miracles. A week at my home with my daughter’s family, arriving at 75 and moving onto 76, watching a Friday the 13th full moon rise together with family, an Order of Interbeing retreats in Tanpa and OKC, and Chairing a hugely successful Holiday Tour of Homes. I also saw a fifteen year venture in creating a labyrinth become a reality and formed a sangha to meditate together with others right here where I live. The pain of being alone slowly melted away into oblivion as the year progressed. As I look back on it all, I am feeling like this year has been a success ad an endless Solstice cycle. Believe me when I say I am not oblivious to this suffering planet. Every day’s meditation has included asking for a way to actually make a difference, to contribute to the collapse of that which is so unjust and destructive to humankind and to pioneer with others a new social vehicle founded on the Oneness of all creation. For my whole adult life I lived that kind of life of service. It has been at the cost of deep human connections. This year, attention to the people I love, the place Where I live, and the life I want to be had its day in the Light of the Solstice Sun. In 2020, I will have learned some valuable lessons about how to balance these otherwise conflicting dynamics. May I, in 2020, trust the decisions I make. May these decisions connect human hearts in loving focus on care for this planet’s well being. I am free to be guided by an open Heart and clear Mind. *[image: img20191031_18021200_0002.jpg]**I dance in the Sacred Circle of the Solstice cycle.** [image: img20191031_18021200_0002.jpg]* -- *Judi White* *"Take pleasure in the excellence of others, Shanti Deva**h <http://circlefireflydance.blogspot.com>ttp://anandasmantra.wordpress.com <http://anandasmantra.wordpress.com>* http://porchtimechats.blogspot.com