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Siobhan, Seamus & Maeve
Ready to go sledding
We have lots of snow, so Meghan decided that Sunday, the last day of Christmas vacation, would be a great day to fulfill her promise to take the kids sledding. At first she pulled them around our plowed driveway while I took pictures. Finally, it was time to head off the steep hill below our house. Unfortunately, the snow was loose and deep. If you were skiing, it would be powder, but the sleds just sunk! Finally, I put away the camera and joined them in floundering down the hill. Maybe next time the sleds will actually slide!
Meghan and kids ready to go
Seamus with his sled
Seamus and Maeve (who wisely, didn't want to sit up)
Heading down the hill
We almost lost Meghan
She isn't making snow angels!
Sheep Mountain
A Blessing for the New Year
John O’Donohue
On the day when
The weight deadens
On your shoulders
And you stumble,
May the clay dance
To balance you.
And when your eyes
Freeze behind
The gray window
And the ghost of loss
Gets into you,
May a flock of colors,
Indigo, red, green
And azure blue,
Come to awaken in you
A meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
In the curragh of thought
And a stain of ocean
Blackens beneath you,
May there come across the waters
A path of yellow moonlight
To bring you safely home.
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
Wind work these words
Of love around you,
An invisible cloak
To mind your life.
Beannacht
For Josie
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